Kate vs LiteIDE

Kate is a free text editor for viewing and editing text files on Linux, macOS and Windows. It can show multiple documents in horizontally or vertically split windows, and supports multi-cursor and column editing. For code and other structured text, Kate provides syntax highlighting for over 400 languages, bracket matching and on-the-fly spell checking. Programming tools include auto-completion with argument hints, scriptable auto-indentation and Vi input mode; the editor uses the Language Server Protocol for auto-completion in many languages. Search and replace handles regular expressions, multiline searches, open files and files on disk. Listed plugins include an embedded terminal, SQL, build, GDB and Replace in Files tools. Kate can open remote files and supports Unicode and other encodings. Backups on save and swap files can help recover data after a system crash. The editor is free, and its listed plan describes it as available for Linux, Windows and macOS. Nightly packages are compiled daily, but may be unstable or incomplete and are recommended for testing.

LiteIDE is a free, open-source IDE for Go development on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. Its editor handles Go, Markdown, and Go Present with syntax highlighting, completion, folding, and navigation. Projects can be compiled and tested through standard Go tools, with custom build configurations available. Go workflows include modules, workspaces, GOPATH, and vendor support, plus integrations for gocode, gomodifytags, and guru. Debugging uses GDB and Delve. The IDE also includes plug-ins, an integrated terminal, configurable build commands, and file search, replace, and revert tools. Developers can switch build environments and set GOOS and GOARCH for cross-compilation. The latest listed release is X38.4, dated 2025-05-20, with Go 1.24 support. The installation guide requires the Go development environment; building from source requires Qt4 or Qt5. The repository identifies an LGPL-2.1 license.