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. MUnit Support 5. Scala 3 Improvements 6. And more! Parallel Compilation According to the official Scala Developer Survey, long compilation times is the main pain point in Scala programmers' daily workflows by a large margin. Although speeding up the Scala compiler is a worthy goal

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. In-editor Scaladoc rendering 6. Completion improvements Auto-import for implicits While you can use View | Show Implicit Hints to display implicits (even absent ones), importing an implicit was never an easy task. The new Auto-import for implicits action works exactly like Auto-import

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 become Scala 3, we have started to work on full-fledged Scala 3 support. The Scala plugin now includes preliminary support for Scala 3: the new syntax, error highlighting, navigation, type info, and many

Hooray! It’s been a while since our last update on Big Data Tools. Our team has been busy addressing your feedback, fixing bugs, and adding important new features. First of all, the Big Data Tools plugin is now available in IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 Beta. In case you don’t know, this is a new upcoming version of the IDE focused entirely on performance and UX. The update brings tons of major and minor improvements overall that will make working with the IDE even more enjoyable. Second, in order to help you get started with the Big Data Tools plugin, we’ve added the official documentation p

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. Interactive type hints 4. Wrap / unwrap expressions as you type 5. Unobtrusive redundant code inspections 6. Case clause completion 7. Build Server Protocol 8. Language injection for multiline strings 9. Duplicate code fragment inspection Functional code highlighting Previously, IntelliJ IDEA

First of all, we want to thank all the contributors who have helped us to implement so many useful new features, bug-fixes, and refactorings. You really inspire us to do our very best work. Your input is greatly appreciated! Let’s take a look at the new features you’ll find in Scala Plugin 2018.2. Improved display of Implicit conversions / arguments usage Now the editor is capable of providing much more useful information about the “implicit” things happening in your code: Scala plugin can show implicit conversions and arguments as inline hints. The Editor also shows hints when an imp

We have exciting news to share with you – the IntelliJ Scala plugin 2018.1.9 is now available! Get the fresh build here or update your plugin via IDEA / Settings / Plugins. Let’s cut to the chase and take a look at the goodies that are inside this new Release build. Literal Types support As literal types are gradually appearing in Scala, we are ensuring their proper handling in our Tools. The Scala plugin now detects when literal types can be used and enables support for them. (more…)

Meet the newly released Scala Plugin 2018.1! It’s packed with a whole variety of features, improvements and bug-fixes, and ready for download. In preparing this release for you, we’ve focused on the overall quality and UI/UX aspects, but also managed to add a couple of new interesting features. Read on to find out more. Parameter Name Hints If you’ve worked with Java code in IntelliJ IDEA, you’ve probably noticed the feature called “Parameter name hints”. The Scala language has a similar tool called “Named arguments” but we actually cannot completely rely on it. Sometimes developers do not u

First of all, we want to thank all the contributors who helped implement many useful features, bugfixes, and refactorings. You really inspire us to do our very best work. Your input is greatly appreciated! Now let’s take a look at the new features you’ll find in Scala Plugin 2017.3. Highlighting of implicit usages Most likely you are already familiar with this highlighting feature (it uses violet in the Default Theme), which usages of the symbol under the caret across the opened file. Starting with this release, it also highlights places where the target is used implicitly: (more&he

This summer, we are happy to announce a number of new features and improvements in the Scala Plugin. Some of them we decided to introduce in the 2017.1 updates, as soon as they were ready. And the rest are coming to you now – with IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2. We appreciate the contributions of all EAP participants. So, let’s do a brief overview of the recent changes. Debugging in SBT Shell Not so long ago we introduced SBT Shell which makes work with SBT project in IntelliJ IDEA more convenient. We continued to improve this feature and can now announce its integration with debugger. With one button

After IntelliJ IDEA 2017.1 was released, we have added many new features to the Scala plugin. Project View is simplified We have reworked and simplified navigation to Scala nodes: IDEA 2017-like icon style Type + Companion object nodes Flat package object Files are leaf nodes To explore the internal structure of a file, enable the “Show Members” parameter in Project View options: (more…)

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…)