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This release has been focused on improving Scala 3 support. There are also several new features to help with day-to-day Scala programming. Let’s take a closer look: 1. Scala 3 support improvements 2. New Scala project wizard 3. Alias exports 4. Unused declaration inspection 5. Scala debugger upgrad…
This release brings more improvements to Scala 3 support. There are also several new features to help with day-to-day Scala programming. Let's take a closer look: 1. Scala 3 support improvements 2. Open cross-compiled projects as Scala 2 3. Data flow analysis for Scala 4. Autocomplete for Scala com…
This release has been focused on significantly improving our plugin’s Scala 3 support. There are also several new features, including a Package Search integration and optional compiler-based error highlighting. Better Scala 3 support Indexing of Scala 3 libraries is now fast, precise, and version-ag…
With this major version, we've focused primarily on the performance and overall quality of the plugin. We’ve still added a number of new features to help with day-to-day Scala programming. Let's take a closer look. 1. Kinds in type diffs 2. Machine learning completion 3. Phases …
It so happens that this year's Scala Days is Scala Love in the City. The online conference promises to be exciting. It includes some of the most well-known names in the Scala world, with Martin Odersky as a keynote speaker. And the virtual food is amazing ;) If you haven't registered yet, make sure …
Most releases are focused on editor features, but the stars of this show are parallel compilation and compilation charts. We also have a handful of editor goodies in store. Let's take a closer look. 1. Parallel Compilation 2. Compilation Charts 3. Enhanced Package Prefixes 4&per…
What happens when you combine one obscure IntelliJ IDEA feature with two obscure Scala features? If you choose the right ones, their obscurities just might cancel each other out, so that instead making everything far more opaque you can get an intuitive and internally consistent system. Let's see ho…
In addition to incremental improvements, this release brings a large number of essential new features to help with day to day Scala programming: 1. Auto-import for implicits 2. Indentation-based brace handling 3. First-class companions 4. Auto-import for object members 5&…
Because Scala is a curly-bracket language, adding and removing curly braces is an integral part of Scala programmers' everyday life. Those actions compound, so every improvement in this area matters. To understand the new advances, let us first take a take a look at it from historical perspective (o…
Implicits are magical. But every wizard knows that any sufficiently complex magic requires a good enough magic wand. In the case of implicits, the Scala plugin can work just as well, or maybe even better. You can already use View | Show Implicit Hints (Ctrl + Alt + Shift + "+") to see beyond appeara…
Although we won't have Scala Days this year, the Scala Love conference is all the rage. The technology lets us transcend physical boundaries – we can unite while being far away... well, at least as long as there are tickets left ;) Owing to high demand, the IntelliJ Scala team has volunteered…
While the key feature of the 2020.1 Scala plugin release is, of course, Scala 3 support, there are many features and improvements for all versions of Scala. Let's take a closer look. 1. Scala 3 support 2. Fine-grained error highlighting for function literals 3. Unused Parameter inspection 4. S…
