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Which IDE for Scala 2.8?

I’m learning Scala by reading ‘Programming in Scala’ book by Odersky et al.

What programming environment people use for scala?

I’ve used TextMate and emacs, and trying to use eclipse for Java.

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There are several options, with varying degrees of maturity:

• Emacs has good bindings;
• Eclipse has a plugin;
• Intellij IDEA has a Scala plugin and a community edition;
• NetBeans has it’s plugin for scala (I believe a lot of people on the Lift side us it).

Other tools that are not IDEs but will help have on your routine (specially if you are not addicted to IDEs):

• SBT (Scala Build Tool), has some very nice features, including get Maven Artifacts, continuous compilation and testing, written in Scala;
• Maven does provide a good support for building (but you have to learn Maven);
• Specs is an awesome test framework

I like IDEA better then Eclipse, although the Eclipse has evolved well. I chose it because it worked better on refactors and has good support for Maven. Eclipse also support maven, but I felt IDEA’s implementation better.

Now these tools are in constant improvement, and all of the have their strengths and weaknesses. Stability has improved a lot, and I felt productive in both Eclipse and IDEA. But my understanding is that the tooling is not at the same level the Java versions.