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We added basic Dotty support in the IntelliJ Scala plugin a long time ago, right after the announcement of Dotty. However, for a long time Dotty has been a dark horse, and aiming at a moving target hadn't been easy. So it was reasonable to put that task on the back-burner and focus on Scala 2 for a …
Just like IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3, this release of the Scala Plugin is focused primarily on performance boosts and usability enhancements. And yet, we managed to sneak in a cool new feature as well. Let's take a closer look. 1. Method chain hints 2. Inlay hint settings 3. Searchable settings 4. S…
The 2019.2 release of the Scala plugin offers many improvements in different areas. The key focus of this release is a new code highlighting paradigm whereby the highlighting is now cleaner, yet provides even more coding assistance. 1. Functional code highlighting 2. Fine-grained type diff 3. I…
Statically typed programming languages, such as Java or Scala, are all about types. But not all types are created equal: there’s a difference between how types work in imperative programming and how they work in functional programming. In this article, we show why “imperative” highlighting doesn’t m…
For several years we've been working with Triplequote to help them develop the Hydra IntelliJ IDEA plugin. By combining IntelliJ IDEA with the Hydra parallel compiler, you can speed up both Scala development and Scala compilation. Here is a tutorial from the Triplequote team to explain the details. …
Some releases are about adding more features. In this release, we've focused on improving the existing features of the Scala plugin. These features are the bread and butter of Scala programmers, so we hope the improvements will make our day-to-day work much easier. Here goes: 1. Highlighting of f…
This update brings many new features and improvements in different areas: 1. User interface First, we've streamlined the project wizard: IDEA / SBT project formats are now clearly separated. SBT project is now the default format. There's a brand-new SBT icon! (more…)…
They say "with great power comes great responsibility." Because of the IntelliJ Scala plugin's huge user base, most default settings tend to become de-facto standards in the Scala community, so we strive to choose the defaults wisely. Moreover, we believe that sometimes such kind of decisions are wo…
It may well be that you haven't considered contributing to any open source project, let alone the IntelliJ Scala plugin. However, if you use IntelliJ IDEA to write Scala code, it's actually a very reasonable thing to do. Here's how you can benefit from contributing to the plugin code base. There's a…
From what we usually hear, the fans of Vim, Emacs, Sublime and other nice editors often explain their choice by performance concerns. IntelliJ IDEA for example may feel laggy (comparing to a text editor) when you type, and the usual justification for that is some variation of “an intelligent IDE thi…
With the just published Scala Plugin 1.2 RC build, we're happy to pioneer a new kind of coding assistance, which we like to call "ahead of time" (AOT) code completion. Have you ever noticed that unlike Java, in Scala we have to spend more time actually typing all the parameter and variable names?…
The Scala community knows that the place to be on June 16th - 18th is Scala Days 2014 conference. So, the entire team behind the IntelliJ Scala plugin went to Berlin to embrace the awesomeness of this event. Besides attending the talks (I wish I had enough time to hear them all), we delivered our…
