What's the best Scala build system? [closed]

Answer 1

Am also quite frustrated with the scala plugin on Eclipse and I can add a few more problems to the list:

• auto-complete only works some of the time
• the debugger doesn't work properly (especially when trying to debug scala xml)
• the debugger forgets breakpoints
• 'go to definition' doesn't work more often than not.

I'm glad to hear that Buildr sounds like a better alternative (on the build front anyhow), I'll give that a try - thanks!

Answer 2

I went down the same road, and here is where I am at: - After some initial investigation, I dropped Kate. I love to use it for most things, but when it came to things like defining tab completions, I found it sorely lacking. I would recommend that you look into gedit instead, which is much more robust for Scala development - With gedit as my editor, I use SBT and have found it to be a great build tool. I can put it into a 'test' mode where when any code changes it recompiles the relevant files and runs my test suite. This has been an extremely effective way to work.

I have not taken a look at Buildr yet. I would like to say that I will, but honestly with SBT at my disposal I don't really have a compelling need to look at another build tool.