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Best IDEs for Scala development
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IntelliJ IDEA
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Windows, Linux, Mac
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Eclipse
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Emacs + ensime
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IntelliJ IDEA
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Community edition is open source
The community version is open source and works perfectly with Scala.
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Lacks good support for individual files and scripts
You can't really work with files outside of an sbt or maven project with IDEA. Sometimes you'd just like to write a single-file command-line tool in Scala, but you'll have to reach for a different editor when you do.
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WorthyDamasen's Experience
everything just works . Not so comfortable in SUblime , vscode plugins are not that good .
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Free version available
There is a free community edition (open source) and an ultimate edition, which you can compare here. The ultimate edition is available for free for one year for students but must be registered through an .edu e-mail account.
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Inspection can be wrong
Sometimes the in-editor type checker incorrectly marks code as incorrect, despite the code compiling and running.
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Stable and robust
IntelliJ IDEA hardly ever crashes or has any issues that plague other Java IDEs like file corruption or slowness.
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Performance
Tends to slow down, sometimes to the point that keystrokes don't register for a few seconds, especially when making heavy use of implicits.
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Intuitive and slick UI
IDEA has a clean, intuitive interface with some customization available (such as the Darcula theme).
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Prices are not bad
For $24 a month you get access to all JetBrains products, so you can use many tools. Others, like NetBeans, Eclipse, etc, they're good, but IntelliJ is in space and the sky is the limit.
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Fast and smart contextual assistance
Uses a fast indexing technique to provide contextual hints (auto-completion, available object members, import suggestions). On-the-fly code analysis to detect errors and propose refactorization.
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Clear and detailed documentation
The documentation is exhaustive, easy to navigate and clearly worded.
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Plugins can be unstable
Though there are plenty of plugins to choose from, they aren't always reliable. Some aren't maintained, bug fixes can be slow, and you may need to download plugins from multiple sources.
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Highly customizable
Thanks to the large variety of plugins and various configuration options, Eclipse is very customizable.
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RationalLupercus's Experience
Can't be found on the workspace anymore. It's has been depreciated. Now a long and painfull installation process is needed
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UI can be confusing
There's an overly abundant presence of menus, this forces you to constantly click around the different menu structures; foreign ideas, like Views and Perspectives; strange menu choices, like configure settings located in Windows menu->Preferences.
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Large selection of plugins
Eclipse has a large and active community, which has resulted in a wide variety of plugins.
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No built-in support for sbt
Instead relies on the sbt eclipse plugin which is buggy and executed from the terminal.
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Free and cross-platform
Eclipse runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.
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Fully customizable
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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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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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