Intellij IDEA isn't so bad as an IDE (it's faster and less buggy than the Eclipse Scala plugin last time I checked), but SBT is utterly horrible. It's so awful I'd literally strongly prefer to use Ant (ie clunky scripting in XML) instead.
Yup I second that. Intellij IDEA is currently very good with Scala, especially if one avoids SBT. I use it with Maven and everything works smoothly in a project with several sub-projects and various external dependencies (most to Java libraries).
I suspect the awfulness of SBT is causing a lot of harm to Scala adoption.
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Intellij IDEA isn't so bad as an IDE (it's faster and less buggy than the Eclipse Scala plugin last time I checked), but SBT is utterly horrible. It's so awful I'd literally strongly prefer to use Ant (ie clunky scripting in XML) instead.
Yup I second that. Intellij IDEA is currently very good with Scala, especially if one avoids SBT. I use it with Maven and everything works smoothly in a project with several sub-projects and various external dependencies (most to Java libraries).
I suspect the awfulness of SBT is causing a lot of harm to Scala adoption.
JetBrains has a nightly build out for their sbt plugin. It is not perfect yet but it has worked very well for me.
http://blog.jetbrains.com/scala/2013/07/17/sbt-plugin-nightl...