> ...but there is one for Scala oddly enough. I don't think this is odd at all. There is also one for OCaml and Haskell. (Well, maybe the Haskell one isn't as

> ...but there is one for Scala oddly enough. I don't think this is odd at all. There is also one for OCaml and Haskell. (Well, maybe the Haskell one isn't as good, but I haven't tried it.) in my experience, far more functional programmers like Emacs/Vim and far more Java people like Eclipse/IDEA. So in the Java version, the people who care over-much for IDE features already use an IDE and aren't going to spend time improving Emacs. In functional programming land, people are less worried about IDE features and so don't use IDEs. However, these features are nice, so people are willing to spend time writing backends like Ensime or TypeRex that can be plugged into Emacs.