When comparing Gnome Builder vs Kate, the Slant community recommends Kate for most people. In the question“What are the best editors/IDEs for Rust?” Kate is ranked 9th while Gnome Builder is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Kate is:
Has a terminal that can sync to the location of your document, letting you compile or run your program quickly or run quick commands, all without leaving the editor.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Great language support (for linux based projects)
Python, C, Java, Javascript, Go, Vala, C++, and many more.
Pro Integrates nicely into the GNOME Desktop Environment
Client-side decorations, good use of widgets.
Pro Lovely find and replace tool with great REGEX support
Shows a live feedback of what matches the pattern/criteria entered.
Pro Terminal built in
Fully featured terminal is packaged.
Pro Autocomplete
Fast autocomplete.
Pro Supports versioning (git)
Shows diff indication and has branch integration too.
Pro Integrated debugging
Pro Integrated system-wide profiler for improving software performance
Pro Templating
Good templates available to build applications, even to build gnome applications.
Pro Tiling Editor capability
Supports Tiling.
Pro Extendable through plugins
Pro Integrated terminal
Has a terminal that can sync to the location of your document, letting you compile or run your program quickly or run quick commands, all without leaving the editor.
Pro Project mode
Kate allows you to make projects to simplify the organisation of your code. This brings in additional organization of an IDE without the overhead.
Pro Fast and minimaistic
Kate is pretty fast and lightweight. This helps it with it's start up speed.
Pro Syntax highlighting
Kate supports syntax highlighting for over 180 languages, from Assembler to Zsh.
Pro Edit over FTP, SSH, or other protocols
Kate uses KDE's input and output libraries to read and write files, allowing seamless integration with FTP, SMB, SFTP, and many other protocols.
Pro Thriving plugin ecosystem
Lots of plugins allow Kate to expand or shrink based on your needs. It includes GDB integration, XML completion, and symbol viewing to speed up programming.
Pro By far one of the best and lightest text editors.
Notepads alternative (for the Windows users).
Pro Vi entry mode
Kate has a vi entry mode.
Cons
Con No project management
Because it is still in early development there are little project management functionalities.
Con Hard to install on Windows or OS X
Kate can be a little hard to install and configure, especially for beginners.
On Linux or BSD, it can be easily installed from your distribution's repositories.