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Kite vs Spacemacs: What are the differences?

Kite: Your programming copilot. Augment your coding environment with all the internet’s programming knowledge. Your editor and web browser don't know anything about each other, which is why you end up continuously switching between them. Kite bridges that gap, bringing an internet-connected programming experience right alongside your editor; Spacemacs: Emacs advanced Kit focused on Evil: The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and Vim!*. Since version 0.101.0 and later Spacemacs totally abolishes the frontiers between Vim and Emacs. The user can now choose his/her preferred editing style and enjoy all the Spacemacs features Even better, it is possible to dynamically switch between the two styles seamlessly which makes it possible for programmers with different styles to do seat pair programming using the same editor..

Kite and Spacemacs belong to "Tools for Text Editors" category of the tech stack.

Spacemacs is an open source tool with 18.1K GitHub stars and 4.45K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spacemacs's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Kite
Pros of Spacemacs
  • 6
    Smart auto-completion
  • 2
    Intelligent code analysis
  • 2
    Smart contextual help
  • 2
    PyCharm support
  • 1
    Flexible security config for sending and analysing code
  • 1
    Enterprise model for on premise servers
  • 1
    Atom support
  • 14
    Advanced support for Vim key bindings
  • 12
    Discoverability
  • 10
    Easy setup
  • 10
    Never have to touch the mouse
  • 7
    Community-driven configuration
  • 7
    Cross-platform
  • 6
    Documentation
  • 5
    Emacs
  • 4
    Fast-paced development
  • 4
    Evil
  • 4
    Nice UI
  • 2
    Git Integration
  • 1
    Autocompletion

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Cons of Kite
Cons of Spacemacs
  • 4
    Needs to send your code to their home-base service
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    What is Kite?

    Your editor and web browser don't know anything about each other, which is why you end up continuously switching between them. Kite bridges that gap, bringing an internet-connected programming experience right alongside your editor.

    What is Spacemacs?

    Since version 0.101.0 and later Spacemacs totally abolishes the frontiers between Vim and Emacs. The user can now choose his/her preferred editing style and enjoy all the Spacemacs features. Even better, it is possible to dynamically switch between the two styles seamlessly which makes it possible for programmers with different styles to do seat pair programming using the same editor.

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