Highlighting of arguments to by-name parameters

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 to extend the conference by hosting a third track called Harmony, in addition to the two existing o

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. Smart Step Into 5. BSP support improvements Scala 3 support Now that Dotty is destined to beco

TL;DR Sometimes you need to attach the IntelliJ IDEA debugger to a running JVM process. Using the Attach to process... action frequently, however, can slow you down a little bit. You might want the IntelliJ IDEA debugger to attach automatically to any process that was spawned outside of IntelliJ IDEA (from the terminal, a build tool, etc.) without having to interact with IntelliJ IDEA each time.

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. Scala REPL improvements 5. Scala Worksheet improvements 6. ScalaTest gutter icons 7. Up-to-date Ja