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Johnny Stovall

Posts: 5
Nickname: oouc
Registered: Jan, 2008

Ide for Scala and Lift

Posted: Feb 10, 2008 5:29 PM

Netbeans has plenty of dead end links to scala plugins. There is even one that says to get started download the Netbeans nightly build.
http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_on_netbeans_modules_on

Eclipse does scala but not lift's web framework. JEdit claims to have Maven & Scala plugins that work and did a new update on 2007 Feb 10 to
http://liftweb.net/index.php/SetUp_jEdit
This is appealing because it says, "support plugin (written in java, scala, ...)" and because it claims that you can set up everything in 1 or 2 hours following the rest of a very well laid out step by step page.

I like JEdit years ago for quick things. But I thought the future would belong to Netbeans or Eclipse for things like Scala. I use Eclipse but it is very clumbsy. Is anyone really using a Netbeans Scala plugin? If so, I would like to know if I really have to start by downloading a nightly build instead of tools > plugins > available plugins. For my Netbeans 6.?? this never shows anything about Scala.

Javier Diaz Soto

Posts: 29
Nickname: javierbds
Registered: Sep, 2005

Re: Ide for Scala and Lift

Posted: Feb 18, 2008 11:58 AM

"There is even one that says to get started download the Netbeans nightly build." => For me it is not one, but "The One" ... If you are looking for "finished" plugins (with significant functionality) I do not think there is one anywhere ... But please correct me if I'm wrong.

Caoyuan's stuff seems to work for me (http://wiki.netbeans.org/Scala). This is made by the same person that has made an Erlang IDE in NB (http://sourceforge.net/projects/erlybird).
Most stuff related to language integration is 'new' in NB6 (released on December) (Schielmann, Jackpot? ...), I'd say multilanguage support in NB is finally on par or above Eclipse's.

I would download a nightly build, I tend to follow the instructions of the person that creates the stuff ;)

Florian U

Posts: 1
Nickname: fmu
Registered: Dec, 2007

Re: Ide for Scala and Lift

Posted: Feb 21, 2008 1:23 PM

a monster like eclipse does not really make much sense for a language that should not need all this refactoring/navigating whiz-bang due to its superior expressiveness and compactness.

just use emacs.

Johnny Stovall

Posts: 5
Nickname: oouc
Registered: Jan, 2008

Re: Ide for Scala and Lift

Posted: Feb 21, 2008 7:01 PM

Richard Stallman spent 1/2 of a day telling me of the benefits of an integrated complete environment in 1978. Then he told me that was a religion in the early 1990's. But this religion has failed to attract the following Eclipse has. My classmates who used Lisp were in some ways smarter than I.

If Emacs were written in Scala and had a much easier to use user interface, then I would use it. The Liftweb Google group now has a way to use Maven to get around using different versions of Scala in Eclipse and Lift.

Netbeans remains interesting because although it is not written in Scala it will hopefully have close integration with Scala.

Meanwhile, JEdit is very fast and much easier for me than Emacs was.

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