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Emacs + ensime

scala-mod for emacs

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Fully customizable

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Ensime is ubiquitous

Can be used with VSCode & neovim. It's snappy & fast under all editors! You could also use slime, Atom, etc.

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Lisp sucks + ensime sometimes misses

Emacs Lisp is a pain in the butt. Hard to configure! Ensime is not quite good as IntelliJ in finding code completion candidates.

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Recommended 10 months ago

Fully customizable

Ensime is ubiquitous

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Recommended a year ago

Ensime is ubiquitous

Lisp sucks + ensime sometimes misses

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Recommended a year ago

Fully customizable

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