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IntelliJ IDEA whinge

Posted on September 26, 2008

An update on IntelliJ IDEA + Scala utterly unusable

  1. Delete ~/.IntelliJIdea80 (oh well, I’m so used to specifying my settings over and over anyway).

  2. Start IntelliJ IDEA. Do not open a project

  3. Install the Scala plugin

  4. Open your project

  5. Observe not-useless usability

1. There are still issues of not being able to open certain source folders (try it and see for yourself `scalaz.control` in Scalaz trunk)


2. Other minor annoyances that needn’t be mentioned

I have repeated this twice on different machines (8823). Swapping steps 3 and 4 result in a rapid degeneration of usefulness to the point of absolute uselessness.

Thanks again for listening. I hope the usability trend reverses.