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I got in on the same offer. I found that it had feature parity with Eclipse for the most part, but there was enough missing that I went back to Eclipse. Time t

I got in on the same offer. I found that it had feature parity with Eclipse for the most part, but there was enough missing that I went back to Eclipse. Time to donate!

bad_user 14y ago
What is missing?
- cellis 14y ago
  For one thing, Intellij doesn't autoimport classes. I was trying out Play 2.0 and autocomplete didn't find a ton of classes for instance play.data.Form. A minor thing, sure, and there are ways around it, but the Eclipse Scala IDE found all classes. I have gripes about Eclipse as well, but nothing is perfect.
  - meddlepal 14y ago
    That's strange. I had no problem resolving that class on a default new Play 2.0 Scala app in IDEA 12. Unless I misunderstand your complaint... I have to hit Alt+Enter to select the Package+Class to Import since sometimes (usually) there are Class name conflicts. But it always resolves the dependencies properly.
    - cellis 14y ago
      What I mean is that play.data.Form wasn't in the initial autocomplete list; when I typed F-o-r it didn't suggest play.data.Form ( among others). Only after I had cancelled did it ask me for alt+enter to select one of the conflicting names.
  - thebluesky 14y ago
    IntelliJ does do autoimport. I have very occasionally seen IntelliJ not offer an import suggestion for a class I have used, but overall it's an extremely polished experience.
  - sparx 14y ago
    enable "import on the fly" from settings.
- arielweisberg 14y ago
  The one thing I couldn't live without was pausing threads without a breakpoint. I found Eclipse background compilation to be faster and the compilation errors as you type to be better and more responsive. I also use Eclipse for C/C++ but I run a separate instance for C/C++ so using IntelliJ wasn't an issue. For my workflow IntelliJ didn't seem to add anything, but it did take away one or two small things.

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I got in on the same offer. I found that it had feature parity with Eclipse for the most part, but there was enough missing that I went back to Eclipse. Time t

by arielweisberg 14y ago

I got in on the same offer. I found that it had feature parity with Eclipse for the most part, but there was enough missing that I went back to Eclipse. Time to donate!

bad_user 14y ago
What is missing?
- cellis 14y ago
  For one thing, Intellij doesn't autoimport classes. I was trying out Play 2.0 and autocomplete didn't find a ton of classes for instance play.data.Form. A minor thing, sure, and there are ways around it, but the Eclipse Scala IDE found all classes. I have gripes about Eclipse as well, but nothing is perfect.
  - meddlepal 14y ago
    That's strange. I had no problem resolving that class on a default new Play 2.0 Scala app in IDEA 12. Unless I misunderstand your complaint... I have to hit Alt+Enter to select the Package+Class to Import since sometimes (usually) there are Class name conflicts. But it always resolves the dependencies properly.
    - cellis 14y ago
      What I mean is that play.data.Form wasn't in the initial autocomplete list; when I typed F-o-r it didn't suggest play.data.Form ( among others). Only after I had cancelled did it ask me for alt+enter to select one of the conflicting names.
  - thebluesky 14y ago
    IntelliJ does do autoimport. I have very occasionally seen IntelliJ not offer an import suggestion for a class I have used, but overall it's an extremely polished experience.
  - sparx 14y ago
    enable "import on the fly" from settings.
- arielweisberg 14y ago
  The one thing I couldn't live without was pausing threads without a breakpoint. I found Eclipse background compilation to be faster and the compilation errors as you type to be better and more responsive. I also use Eclipse for C/C++ but I run a separate instance for C/C++ so using IntelliJ wasn't an issue. For my workflow IntelliJ didn't seem to add anything, but it did take away one or two small things.