KDevelop – A cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

KDevelop at one point had the most amazing built-in C++ parser and AST outside of visual studio. It blew my mind how good the autocomplete, contextual highlights, and error highlights were. This is right around the early kdevelop 4 days. I'm sure things have changed, with LSP and clang now especially.

I love KDE applications and Qt based applications, they are usually way more polished compared to GTK counterparts.

However, it's hard for me to choose KDevelop for serious development. As long as it doesn't have feature parity with JetBrains products, I cannot recommend it. Hard to get there since JetBrains R&D budget most likely exceeds KDevelop by a great margin.

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Someone using KDevelop for PHP development? Is it good? Is it bad?

Over the years I always come back and try KDevelop, but for some reason it always feels juuuuuust foreign enough that I walk away.

Maybe it's time for me to try it again, but for C++ work I currently use clion. KDevelop is a beautiful app and I really wish it hit the right notes for me, but it always just barely misses.