After years of development and a whole lot of anticipation, Kite is now available on Linux! You can download it for free here. Kite gives Python developers superpowers, including our Line-of-Code Completions, and integrates as a plugin into PyCharm, IntelliJ, VS Code, Atom, Sublime, and Vim.

In order to provide you with a seamless experience, we’ve made sure Kite for Linux works on a number of Linux distros, including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, and openSUSE. It also works across a variety of desktops, including KDE, XFCE, Gnome 2, and Gnome 3.

While we first expected to ship support for Linux about a year and a half ago, we decided our core product needed more work before expanding our user base. We felt ready for more users after the launch of Line-of-Code Completions earlier this year, and we’re excited to share Kite with the Linux community now. Kite for Linux is much higher quality today than it would have been in 2017 or 2018.

Completions improvements

Speaking of which, we wanted to share some of the progress we’ve continued to make on improving Kite for all our users.