Which IDE/editor do you use for Scala development?

[Zach Cox]

I'm curious - which IDE or editor do you use when writing Scala code?

At Pongr we used to use the Scala IDE for Eclipse (http://www.scala-
ide.org) but found it performed terribly on projects with more than a
few source files. We're now using Ensime (http://github.com/
aemoncannon/ensime) which has been great, as long as you like Emacs.

[metzben]

The Scala IDE for Eclipse(IMO) was unusable when I started up the
Scala hill. I'm using Intellij. Started with it, cursed it for
several months, plugin got better and now I like it well enough. I
stub a lot in Vi mainly because its just faster for me to slam through
ideas.
SBT is Captain Obvious...
~compile, ~ test-quick ... all day long :)
There is an SBT plugin for Intellij which is getting better all the
time. I don't use it but have played with it; once it matures this
combo could be crazy nice.

I've had Ensime bookmarked for a while, just not up for the finger >>
brain >> synapse rewire... yet.

regards,
Ben

[Zach Cox]

+1 for sbt! We moved from maven to sbt recently and the productivity
boost has been amazing. I will never use maven on a scala project
again.

[pingel]

Hi, Zach. After wrestling with the Eclipse plugin for a year or so,
I'm now on emacs + sbt + ensime. They work really well together. I
like having the speed of a text editor with a lot of the features I'm
used to in a powerful IDE.

Apparently scala's presentation compiler made implementing ensime
really easy, which bodes well for all scala tools.

-a