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.
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 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.
it’s more than fancy, it’s KDE’s Advanced Text Editor. Otherwise that’s Kfte
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.