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One of the things IntelliJ IDEA is most famous for is its huge variety of helpful inspections and warnings. They make the lives of programmers significantly easier, frequently showing them errors in logic or style that they wouldn’t have noticed otherwise. Those inspections come in various shapes and sizes, ranging from simple pattern searches to highly sophisticated inspections that require to

Package Search is a service developed by JetBrains that supports searching for libraries from multiple repositories such as Maven Central, Google Maven, and others. Since its introduction at the end of 2019, the Package Search plugin has made searching for and managing dependencies for Maven and Gradle projects more convenient. Starting with the Scala plugin 2021.2 release, the Package Search p

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 (or just watch this). Before At the beginning, there was no IDE assistance, so you had to tinker with

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 appearances: The Scala plugin can show you how impicits are derived and where they come from (NB: "a