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KFluff ? Kate?s External Tools

By Roy Schestowitz Created 15/02/2021 - 11:52pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 15th of February 2021 11:52:15 PM Filed under Development [1] KDE [2]

I?ve been learning C++ lately. About two months ago I finished Codecademy?s C++ course (honestly really good for the basics), a month ago I managed to fetch the C++ Fundamentals book from PacktPub for free, and now I?m mostly following this amazing YouTube online course by The Cherno and taking a look at C++ Weekly. Since I did occasionally dabble with HTML, CSS, JS, C# and Perl in the past and know some Bash basics, learning C++ is progressing nicely, and it?s probably my most well-understood language so far. I took a short look at Qt for Beginners these days, which might warrant another blog post later.

Because of this, I was taking a look at KDE/Qt-centric programs for development purposes; namely Kate, KDevelop and Qt Creator.

Qt Creator has been great for learning QtWidgets, but it?s way more than is needed for basic C++ development/learning. KDevelop is more focused in this regard, but it?s likewise project-based and it utilizes CMake for building. C++ is already quite the challenge to learn, I was not in the mood to learn a new syntax just for the sake of building my simple C++ tutorials?at least not yet. For now some basic g++ commands suffice.

Kate has the basics and it works well; its backend is used in KWrite, Kile and KDevelop, so it?s solid for text editing, that?s for sure. When I was venturing through KDE Web stuff, I used Kate, Nano and Atom, but mostly Kate.

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