Scala and Netbeans
Compared to my IntelliJ IDEA experience, Netbeans works much better with Scala (but worse with Maven). Netbeans does recognize correct code compared to IDEA – but recognizes illegal code as legal too. For example it doesn’t tell you if you implement all methods from an abstract class. And lots of other things are missing from what we are used to in Java. My guess Scala IDEs are 5 years behind Java. Hope they catch up soon.
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I tried all the ide’s, IntelliJ is ok as long as you use ONLY version Diana 8733 with the scala plugin at version 0.2.18767. (note this is the second last scala plugin version).
My computer is MAC OSX 10.5 powerpc, not intel.
Other versions of IntelliJ and combinations of Scala plugin and IDE crashed for me.
Actually I have a better feeling from this IntelliJ than the other IDE’s, Netbeans, JEdit, Eclipse and am using IntelliJ for scala development, its more responsive and looks nicer and also has the method autocomplete working with javadocs.
Getting it all set up right though – takes me days, the Maven, everything, but now happy.