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Couple things to keep in mind: Java IDEs have had millions of man hours put into them; there's a reason they're rock solid reliable; that and Scala's power is a
by virtualwhys 12y ago
Couple things to keep in mind: Java IDEs have had millions of man hours put into them; there's a reason they're rock solid reliable; that and Scala's power is a double edged sword: tooling becomes a more difficult proposition with greater language complexity.
As Scala users we're basically guinea pigs in the IDE department. Having suffered from the relative stone ages of 2010 era Scala tooling I can honestly say that if you're considering picking up the language, you've come at a great time ;-)
re: sbt running the show, not sure about IntelliJ but the core Scala IDE devs will drop that bit of knowledge when a user moans on the mailing lists about blocked UI, spurious syntax errors, and other bundles of joy.