tachoknight wrote: > So I'd like to know, what do people use to write Scala programs right > now? I'm looking for a good, solid Scala implementation that will > allow me to become comfortable with the language. >
I tried both Netbeans and Eclipse (but not the unreleased 2.8 version) and in both cases went back to vi. Being so new to Scala (and hence doing lots of stupid things) I got both to crash and burn pretty quickly. For example, I grabbed a java class and tried too paste it into a Scala source file to then migrate it to Scala line by line - both failed to do the paste. I assume they tried to compile the code as Scala and got themselves into knots. More recently I have tried the IDEA Scala plug in and found it a lot more reliable - once I managed to work out how to get the plugin to install! But my personal experience as a Scala newbie was the IDEs were disappointing after using the Java IDEs. Some of the Java Posse comments about "the Scala IDE support in X is great" I think should be interpreted as "great... compared to what it was in the previous release". I am sure they are getting better, and I don't mean to criticize the people putting in lots of hard work into them - just trying to set reasonable expectation levels. Its also quite possible that if you know what you are doing and write sensible Scala code, the existing IDEs are a lot more useful. But you were asking for IDEs to help learn the language. Alan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
