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by ninjakeyboard 3755 days ago
While my peers using emacs might disagree, I'd argue it's also by far the friendliest scala development env as well. I've used the community and ultimate edition for many years. CE is fine coupled w/ sbt for most anything you want to do and promises to remain free.
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allengeorge 3755 days ago
Yes, Scala-wise I prefer it to Eclipse (Scala IDE) by a wide margin. That said, my coworkers and I routinely experience Idea 'hangs' while working on our Scala projects. That's something I never experienced while working on large Java projects in Idea, and I'm curious whether it's because Scala (as a language) is harder on the IDE, or whether the Scala plugin needs more love, or...

Oh, and auto-import of SBT changes? Turn it off. Definitely turn it off.

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estefan 3755 days ago
> my coworkers and I routinely experience Idea 'hangs' while working on our Scala projects.

Same here. It sounds like my MBP is going to take off when it has to build it's indices or whatever. Would be nice if it didn't cane my machine so much but I guess it's all the type stuff and implicits, etc.

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ninjakeyboard 3755 days ago
I do not experience hangs on either ubuntu nor osx.
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