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For me, kate and kdevelop are the best editors/ide.

I'm using them even on non kde desktops..

Sure, there are a few bugs and features that could be added. But it is a no match for other editors when you compare with the criterions: open source, free, lightweight to use.

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I have used Kate and it is pretty nice.

What does Kdevelop do that I won't get with Pycharm?

* Better support for QT & KDE tooling for one. * Faster. * Opinion: PyCharm's static analysis seems to be better. * Nice support for opening projects from source control.

Kdevelop is really not all that bad, and it does a good job of getting out of the way. That said, I'm using PyCharm for 99% of my work in Python. Kdevelop, I keep around for the occasion when I want to tweak a KDE app.

It used to be very crashy in the past but I recently tried it with Apache httpd codebase and it was really good - fast, accurate code completion, easy configuration, same stellar customizability except it all seems to work now.

> it all seems to work now.

Just in time to port everything to Qt 6 and start the merry-go-round again!

Kidding, but also not really.

Thanks, probably not enough for me to switch, but nice to know.

Excellent C++ debugging, easy to setup with CMake projects.

agreed, Kdevelop which uses Kate is the only IDE I know that is able to parse properly really complex C++ code (projects that clion or visual studio or vscode would just crash on)

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