Programming is hard by Stephan Schmidt
Compared to my IntelliJ IDEA experience, Netbeans works much better with Scala (but worse with Maven). Netbeans does recognize correct code compared to IDEA - but recognizes illegal code as legal too. For example it doesn’t tell you if you implement all methods from an abstract class. And lots of other things are missing from what we are used to in Java. My guess Scala IDEs are 5 years behind Java. Hope they catch up soon.
I like Intellj also better, but currently there is a problem that it doesn’t recognize valid Scala code as valid.
September 20th, 2008
Hello.
Yes, it’s a problem with highlighting of correct code by red. The cause is in some meta information (like type aliaces and generics) which we cannot extract from compiled class files for now (Of course, we can, but for this we would have to implement our own signature attribute parser. This is heaps of work.) and we wait for new scalap implementation which was promised in one of nearest Scala releases.
With best regards,
Ilya
Hello Ilya, thanks for the reply, I’ll take a look when the new scalap is released.
October 1st, 2008
I tried all the ide’s, IntelliJ is ok as long as you use ONLY version Diana 8733 with the scala plugin at version 0.2.18767. (note this is the second last scala plugin version).
My computer is MAC OSX 10.5 powerpc, not intel.
Other versions of IntelliJ and combinations of Scala plugin and IDE crashed for me.
Actually I have a better feeling from this IntelliJ than the other IDE’s, Netbeans, JEdit, Eclipse and am using IntelliJ for scala development, its more responsive and looks nicer and also has the method autocomplete working with javadocs.
September 20th, 2008Getting it all set up right though - takes me days, the Maven, everything, but now happy.