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Harmony @ Scala Love conference

Although we won't have Scala Days this year, the Scala Love conference [https://scala.love/conf/] is all the rage. The technology lets us transcend physical boundaries – we can unite while being far away... well, at least as long as there are tickets left ;) Owing to high demand, the IntelliJ Sc...

Pavel Fatin

• 6 min read

IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2020.1: Scala 3, Function Literal Highlighting, Unused Parameter Inspection, Smart Step Into, and BSP Support Improvements

While the key feature of the 2020.1 Scala plugin release is, of course, Scala 3 support, there are many features and improvements for all versions of Scala. Let's take a closer look. 1. Scala 3 support2. Fine-grained error highlighting for function literals3. Unused Parameter inspection4. Smart...

Pavel Fatin

• 3 min read

Scala 3 support in IntelliJ Scala plugin

We added basic Dotty support in the IntelliJ Scala plugin a long time ago, right after the announcement of Dotty. However, for a long time Dotty has been a dark horse, and aiming at a moving target hadn't been easy. So it was reasonable to put that task on the back-burner and focus on Scala 2 for...

Pavel Fatin

• 1 min read

14 January 2020

AttachMe - Attach the IntelliJ IDEA debugger to forked JVMs automatically

TL;DR Sometimes you need to attach the IntelliJ IDEA debugger to a running JVM process. Using the Attach to process... action frequently, however, can slow you down a little bit. You might want the IntelliJ IDEA debugger to attach automatically to any process that was spawned outside of IntelliJ ...

Justin Kaeser

• 3 min read

19 December 2019

Big Data Tools: Experimental Spark Integration, Slack Community, and Feedback

Yesterday we’ve released [https://master.dev.blog.intellij.net/scala/2019/12/18/big-data-tools-eap-4-aws-s3-file-explorer-bugfixes-and-more/] a fresh update of the Big Data Tools plugin [https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12494-big-data-tools] in which we’ve added the integration with AWS S3. ...

Andrey Cheptsov

• 3 min read

18 December 2019

Big Data Tools EAP 4: AWS S3 File Explorer, Bugfixes, and More

The holidays came early this year! Now, when I’ve actually looked at the calendar, I think it’s exactly on time. Whatever the case, we have some presents for you! Just today we’ve released a new update to our Big Data Tools plugin [https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12494-big-data-tools]! We ho...

Andrey Cheptsov

• 2 min read

13 December 2019

Data Engineering and Developer Tools for Big Data

This is a guest blog post by Jeff Zhang [https://twitter.com/zjffdu], a speaker at multiple events around Big Data, an active contributor to various open source projects related to Big Data, an Apache member, and a staff engineer at Alibaba Group. Last week, Jeff did [https://youtu.be/MG1XMUWG1oM...

Andrey Cheptsov

• 8 min read

28 November 2019

IntelliJ Scala Plugin 2019.3: Method Chain Hints, Scala REPL, Scala Worksheet, and ScalaTest improvements

Just like IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3, this release of the Scala Plugin is focused primarily on performance boosts and usability enhancements. And yet, we managed to sneak in a cool new feature as well. Let's take a closer look. 1. Method chain hints2. Inlay hint settings3. Searchable settings4. Scala ...

Pavel Fatin

• 4 min read