MikinaOct 7, 2025

New Jetbrains Update Dropped

https://programming.dev/post/38679927

Show threadBlameTheAntifaOct 7, 2025

Doesn’t anyone else use things like OpenSnitch to audit all outgoing connections? I block all phone homes until something breaks, then investigate.

If you are trapped on Windows for some corporate reason, there is SimpleWall.

We’re friends, and friends don’t let friends let apps phone home.

Show threadEpheraOct 7, 2025
I feel like lots of people here use Linux, where you don’t need to be constantly vigilant of your applications working against you…
Show threadhodgepodginOct 7, 2025
A lot of proprietary tools like VScode and Jetbrains are needed on Linux if you’re a novice or not yet proficient with tools like EMacs/Vi yet. For example I couldn’t get Vscodium to load an extension I needed so I had to use VScode. But tbh I’m just making excuses cuz I don’t know how to set up a good dev environment :-(
Show threadEpheraOct 7, 2025
Personally, I find Kate is decent enough for most coding tasks. It does not have an open plugin ecosystem, so I guess, maybe it wouldn’t work for you.
But aside from plugins, whenever I see people using VS Code/-ium, I wonder why they keep raving about it. It just looks like a bogstandard editor with LSP support to me. And Microsoft may have gotten that LSP ball rolling, but it’s supported in lots of editors now…
Show threadfelbaneOct 8, 2025

VScode is certainly a heck of a lot easier to get LSPs working than e.g. vim.

If someone made it actually easy to set up neovim with lsp support that works as well as with vscode, there’d be no reason to give Microsoft any attention at all

Show threadEpheraOct 8, 2025

Is the LSP support a plugin in Neo-/Vim ?

In Kate, you just install the LSP server, which is typically as simple as apt install marksman and then Kate will automatically start it when it encounters an appropriate file.

Kate also has a Vi Mode, if that’s what you’re looking for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Show threadAeonFelisOct 8, 2025
The LSP support itself is builtin in Neovim (not in Vim though, AFAIK), but each language server needs to be configured and activated. There is a plugin with all(ish) configurations - github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig - and activation is done with a vim.lsp.enable(“server-name”) command, which you just put in your config and the Neovim will start the LSP when you open a relevant file.
GitHub - neovim/nvim-lspconfig: Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP

Quickstart configs for Nvim LSP. Contribute to neovim/nvim-lspconfig development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadEphera

Ah, I guess that makes sense. Kate automatically detects available LSP server executables but then prompts you before starting them for the first time, in case you did not install that and it’s malware, or I guess, in case you just placed a script there which happened to be called the same, but would be very bad to run.

Neovim could theoretically do that, too, but then you need a way to block executables, so that it stops prompting you every time, which you’d probably want in a separate config file.
So, it’s definitely a simpler solution and perhaps moreso what one would expect from a TUI editor, for you to just list the ones to run in the config file.

Oct 9, 2025 at 12:01amWeb
Show threadAeonFelisOct 9, 2025

Neovim has something better - there is a plugin that installs the servers for you - github.com/mason-org/mason.nvim - and then you can just use the servers that plugin has installed (which should be more trustworthy because you just need to trust the plugin and not some random executable)

There is also github.com/mason-org/mason-lspconfig.nvim which bridges the two and automatically enables servers that were installed via Mason.