I have been using KDE via Kubuntu for about 2 years now, other distros with Gnome before that. Based upon the name (KDE Advanced Text Editor, K.A.T.E.) I always thought of Kate as an alternative to Notepad++ or something like that. Like a highend note-taking app.
I recently started using Kate for managing my Docker-Compose yaml files on my homelab, using the Git functionality to sync to my repos and doing some web development. It's basically an alternative to VSCode or Codium.
Thanks to the devs who work on Kate . If you don't hear it enough we appreciate you!
I used kate for my algorithms class, it was so nice, the syntax highlighting and symbol referencing worked out of the box.
This was in contrast to ctags that confused me at the time.
I should actually install kate on my work mac, I just kind of defaulted to VS Code since the colleagues were doing that, but seeing now that Kate is crossplatform that should be nice.