Re: [scala-tools] Re: IntelliJ Support for Scala?

Mostly true. I think the only practical way to analyze Scala
is through the compiler, so hopefully opening up the compiler
will lead to more tools. However, I was under the impression
that JetBrains preferred to work through their own Java-based
engine, which would sort of preclude doing anything on a language
that is substantially more expressive than Java (like Scala).

Quoting Peter Niederwieser <pniederw@...>:

>
> I talked to Jetbrains about this, and they told me that they stopped
> working
> on the Scala plugin for the time being, because
> - demand for Groovy/Ruby was higher
> - the language was moving too fast
> - Scala is a terribly difficult language for compiler/tool writers, and
> the
> only good way to analyze Scala programs might be through the official
> compiler, which didn't yet support this
>
> Hopefully the work will be continued at some point...
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
>
> Daniel Wellman wrote:
> >
> > There is a plugin available for IntelliJ:
> >
> > http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=1347
> >
> > It seems a bit dated (the page says it doesn't support version 2.6
> > language features, which I assume means it was written for version 2.5
> and
> > not 2.7) but on IDEA 7.0.3 it actually opened up a project.  It
> doesn't
> > support Ctrl-Space completion to my knowledge.
> >
> > I think it's not under very active development -- the Ruby and
> Groovy
> > languages have been getting the most attention (probably because of
> their
> > big growth in adoption).  I hope Scala gets this same kind of boom
> and
> > support; I'd love to have IntelliJ's Java refactoring support in
> Scala.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > Randy Kahle wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there an IntelliJ 7.0 plugin for Scala?
> >>
> >> Randy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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