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.

I feel like lots of people here use Linux, where you don’t need to be constantly vigilant of your applications working against you…

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 :-(

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…

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

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)_/¯

Where might I find a list of languages/LSPs that Kate supports and will load automatically like that?

Here is the default configuration: invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/…/settings.json

If you do need more LSP servers or a different one for a language, you can specify your own custom configuration in the same format.