It is a plugin, but it is a Jetbrains made plugin, so it's not as if it's lacking in support. The upgrades in this version are enormous: The debugger in 13 was

It is a plugin, but it is a Jetbrains made plugin, so it's not as if it's lacking in support. The upgrades in this version are enormous: The debugger in 13 was only semi-usable because it's pretty hard to write any interesting debugging expressions in Scala without using a lambda, and lambdas were completely unsupported in 13. It's not quite the Java debugger, but I'll take it. I have yet to try if their SBT support has improved as much as it should: The old SBT import worked if your project was simple, so it worked for all the toy projects I have, but it always failed on anything serious I did for work. The Scala plugin lags behind the Java support a little (I'd love to have the new annotated code feature that Java has in Scala), but IMO, it sure beats doing the same work in eclipse, or in an editor that doesn't understand the language at all.