What is the current state of tooling for Scala?

Question

Over the past year, I\'ve heard an increasing amount of hype regarding the Scala language. I know that there are several existing projects that have plans to integrate Scal

Answer 1

Here's a similar question: Which is the best IDE for Scala development?

In my very short experience with the Scala IDE for Eclipse and the Scala Plugin for Netbeans, it seemed like the Netbeans plug-in was a little more solid than the Eclipse one.

With the Scala IDE for Eclipse I was having problems with running a Hello World-type Scala object, and sometimes the syntax highlighting would start acting up. Then, I tried out the Netbeans plug-in, and it seemed to be more functional than the Eclipse one.

I haven't used either Scala IDE plug-in much in-depth, so I can't speak out of a lot of experience, but just from my initial impression, the Netbeans plug-in seemed a little bit more stable than the Eclipse one.