IDE for Scala sucks, mostly because Java developers are spoiled with Intelij IDEA and, to some degrees, Eclipse. It is still very usable. If you don't care abou

IDE for Scala sucks, mostly because Java developers are spoiled with Intelij IDEA and, to some degrees, Eclipse. It is still very usable. If you don't care about IDE, that is a non-issue. What other Scala tools you're referring to? Scala can reuse almost all popular Java tools. Also, can you elaborate on strict coding convention? do you mean operator overloading?