KDE also has a pretty good VSCode alternative, KATE. You can actually disable the AI agent, takes up much less resources, only thing it lacks is a DAB plugin, which I’m working on the sides.
It’s almost on par with VSCode nowadays, and that little loss of a few plugins worth it for the exchange of less resource usage, and not trying its best to force you to do vibe coding.
KDE also has a pretty good VSCode alternative, KATE. You can actually disable the AI agent, takes up much less resources, only thing it lacks is a DAB plugin, which I’m working on the sides.
Kate has an AI agent now?
Been using it daily for years, never seen a hint of that. Maybe it’s just because I haven’t updated to the very latest version.
It’s a plugin, and it’s disabled by default even.
Guess that’s why I haven’t seen it then. Haven’t touched the configuration since I first got it how I like it years ago.
I’ve been using Kate for something like decades and now you’re telling me it’s more than just a fancy text editor?
it’s more than fancy, it’s KDE’s Advanced Text Editor. Otherwise that’s Kfte
It’s almost on par with VSCode nowadays, and that little loss of a few plugins worth it for the exchange of less resource usage, and not trying its best to force you to do vibe coding.
For some reason I thought Kate was just a CLI tool, more akin to vim than vscode. I was mistaken and this actually looks pretty awesome.
KATE does have a plugin, that allows you to use it in a similar fashion to Vi at least.
I really like kate, but i really miss a lot vscode plugins.