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by seanmcdirmid 3944 days ago
Scala is another one of those languages whose type information should enable a really good advanced experience, but the IDEs are struggling with respect to their peers (heroic efforts from jet brains and type safe not with standing). As parent said, many communities really don't appreciate or understand IDEs, and so what gets done reflects that.
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justthistime_ 3943 days ago
Which languages have better IDE support than Scala?

Java, C# ... and both received probably hundred times more man-power than Scala IDEs.

What else?

My experience: All dynamic languages – probably not. C++? Hell no. F#? No. OCaml? No. Haskell? No.

Which language do you think of?

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seanmcdirmid 3943 days ago
F# has pretty good IDE support, and type providers are really nice as code completion extensions. C++ has excellent IDE support in visual studio, note I'm including the debugger here also, as that is part of the experience!

Then there is objective C, Swift, Kotlin, Dart, Typescript, some versions of smalltalk. Many of those languages were designed specifically for IDE use (dart and typescript definitely).

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