i’m not sure about Kate but when i was first learning Rust, CLion tooling was a huge help in learning about what’s going on. the on-the-fly-analysis and macro expansions were really useful, but it’s just so resource heavy. i haven’t been able to get my vim setup to be as informative (probably a good thing, since i’ve been having to look through more docs), so really it’s just a convenience thing. it’s almost purely out of sheer laziness.

i suppose now would be a good time to ask if you have any recommendations for me to get a similar experience out of Vim? like, i have the rust-analyzer plugin but i couldn’t get some features to work, like those macro-expansions i was mentioning, despite using the dedicated plugin required. i even got rust-analyzer to work on vsc, so i know that it works, i just need to hack at it a little more. tbh this comment kinda grounded me. if i didn’t respond to this, it might’ve taken some more time for me realize i was just making excuses for myself. it also gives me an opportunity to document my vim setup, which i would 100% want some feedback on.

btw, this is for an unencrypted UEFI installation. later, once i have my rice down pat, i will re-partition (and actually thoroughly document that) and encrypt my disk.

i’m also interested in exploring a text editor. i love everything that vim and neovim give me, but sometimes i miss clion. it’s a lot of bloat, so i was thinking of picking up Kate and adding their vim bindings plugin. lmk if you have any alternatives you like!

not sure if this is a hot take or not but honestly, i don’t think there’s any malevolent reason, like weird telemetry or anything like that. i believe they may have wanted to make the effort look like it was grassroots and that the app was revolutionary, completely concocted by their brilliant engineers, so as to liberate the internet and let digital freedom reign.

the app was announced in time for Trump’s SPAC, which was up something like 500% after the Truth Social announcement. i imagine that if they advertised the platform as a fork of an existing technology, “borrowing” an existing theme, and slapping some patriotic propaganda on top of it wouldn’t exactly excite the market or entice usage.

i really do wonder why they didn’t just create their own instance and celebrate the concept of federation? decentralization as a buzzword is so in right now, it really would have helped their case, i think.

ironically, TRUTH Social as a platform was created in the most disingenuous fashion. hopefully it makes people lose faith in these crooked people. unfortunately, it will probably not play out that way and people will continue to crown deceit as truth and sink further into their disillusion.

at times, i even feel pity for folks being led astray by a government that is supposed to protect their interests, but then i remember all of the awful things “truthers” have said to me about my skin color, my beliefs, etc and i throw away the idea of giving someone free empathy. which is a roundabout way to say, i hope this thing gets fucked into oblivion.

a little update on the situation, looks like Truth Social has 30 days to comply or their license is being permanently revoked.