Matthias Ettrich states that he found the reaction from the KDE Community ‘funny’. I’m pretty surprised by that.

Although I think the blogs about it were kind of depressing, but they are understandable. Whenever someone launches a piece of code that is a direct competitor to some code that is already existing, you simply should not expect cheerful people. If you start a nail studio, right next to an existing nail studio, don’t expect to get an invite for the usual coffee.

Having said that, I really don’t think the posted blogs reflect the opinion of the whole KDE Community. I think the reactions were mostly from people who care about KDevelop deeply.

Personally I never got the hang of KDevelop, so I’m happy that there is an alternative now. I’m sure I’m going to try it soonish and hopefully get out of my vi workflow. Although I believe CMake is not yet supported in Qt Creator, which is pretty crucial for a KDE developer (That’s options 5 in Matthias’ list, ‘I would like to use it if you implement X, Y an Z’).