> the compiler has no way of suggesting to you Of course it does. And since Scala 3, it does suggest to you the imports you need for implicits. And IntelliJ do

> the compiler has no way of suggesting to you Of course it does. And since Scala 3, it does suggest to you the imports you need for implicits. And IntelliJ does recommend imports even for Scala 2. Regarding cats, the codebase has been restructured, so that you won't need the implicit imports (or not as much at least): https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2019/09/30/implicit-scope-and-cats/ https://meta.plasm.us/posts/2019/09/30/implicit-scope-and-ca... The trick there is that the Type class instances were moved to appropriate companion objects which are searched by the compiler by default and thus the used doesn't need to do any manual imports.