No scala plugin in Eclipse under Linux Mint

[sanjeev wangi]

Hi,

I followed all steps at http://scala-labs.github.io/getting-started.html. I am using Linux Mint. But the eclipse I installed through Lunix Software Manager doesn't have scala plugin. How to get that? And even don't see an maven import option through Eclipse IDE.

Please let me know if you have any comments/ solution for above problems.

regards,
Sanjeev

[Age Mooij]

Hi Sanjeev

Scala-labs is quite an old project (2009-2010) and it hasn’t been kept up to date very well. The labs themselves should be ok but Scala and the associated tools ecosystem have evolved quite a bit.

If you are looking for a full-blown IDE, you have two options:

- http://scala-ide.org/, which is based on Eclipse

- https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/scala.html using the free version of IDEA

I don’t use an IDE myself so I cannot offer you much help in choosing one over the other. I use Sublime Text 3 with the Scala syntax highlighter plugin and I run SBT from the command line.

Hope this helps

Age