Kite seems to require a background daemon, Electron copilot app, and editor plugin, with a multi-step setup to customize what things are shown on hover vs ctrl+space vs tab. By comparison, Tab Nine was a single command to install in SublimeText, and I have never had to interact with it since other than pressing "tab". It seems to be completely language-agnostic with no additional setup as well.
FWIW, here are a few pain points from trying Kite today:
- Kite is a 1GB download vs TabNine's 64mb
- Kite Engine is using 300MB of RAM on my machine right now, and I don't have a single editor open, and there's no way to stop the daemon in the UI
- "sending usage metrics" is on by default in the preferences :/ this is really scary to someone who remembers Kite's issues with code exfiltration and telemetry in the past, haven't ya'll learned that lesson? I had hoped all of that stuff was disabled these days but I guess not.
- there is no uninstall option provided, and you cannot delete the .app on macOS because "the application is in use", yet there is no UI to stop or diasble the daemon anywhere, do I really have to manually `pkill kite; rm -RF /Applications/Kite.app` to remove it?
- Your "Start free trial" link on the homepage appears to redirect to forms filled with real user email addresses? Who do those addresses belong to, are you leaking your users emails? [screenshot link redacted]
