Hello! I want to write Kotlin for something to keep my brain busy during my spare time. I am aware of IntelliJ, but I would like to avoid it due to telemetry and a general distrust of JetBrains (I downloaded IntelliJ back when I had windows and after i deleted it i found a "JetBrains" or "IntelliJ" folder in a new spot in my computer once a week). IntelliJ community is open source, so is there any telemetry-free forks a la LibreWolf? If not, what do you reccomend for writing Kotlin code? Thank you comrades!
Honestly IntelliJ + a firewall/dns blocker if you're that paranoid is probably the best tooling you're going to find. Not sure how the Kotlin support is on VS Code, but you could try VSCodium, I guess? I really think you'd be doing yourself a disservice, though. I would be lost without all of JetBrains awesome tools.
thank you!
Of course, hope you find something that works for you