Scala Plugin Update for IntelliJ IDEA 14 RC is Out

Alexander Podkhalyuzin

Following IntelliJ IDEA 14 RC that has been released a couple of days ago, we’re publishing a Scala plugin update for it. In this post you will find what’s new in this build:

Scala plugin project migrates to SBT

First of all, Scala plugin project itself now uses SBT for build and dependency management. This is good in a number of ways, one of which is that the SBT task that comes with the project will let you download a correct version of IntelliJ IDEA as a dependency.

Rethinking the project configuration model

Another change is that we’ve finally decided to get rid of the Scala facet and replace it with so called Scala SDK library that, in addition to the standard Scala libraries, has a classpath to Scala compiler:

This change unfortunately is not backward-compatible, and that means you’ll have to convert the your projects to use them with IntelliJ IDEA 14, but don’t worry, it will do it automatically.

Anonymous functions evaluation

And last, but not least, the updated Evaluate expression and Watches now let you evaluate anonymous functions:

This feature still has several limitations and not everything may work as expected (e.g. it doesn’t allow you to access private members unused in other anonymous functions/classes) but we hope to fix it soon.

That’s it for now. For the complete list of changes, please refer to the Release Notes.

The IntelliJ IDEA 14 release is around a corner, it’s your last chance to submit your feedback, use our discussion forum or report bugs directly to the issue tracker.

Develop with Pleasure!