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I really want to like Intellij since it is so much more responsive then Eclipse, but I can't for the life of me get a working scala set up in IDEA or in the community version. Eclipse might still be a bit of a sloutch, but it works.

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What issues are you facing exactly? I've been successfully developing Scala apps since IntelliJ 12 with no issues. It's leaps and bounds better than Eclipse. One thing to note that for sbt-based projects, I recommend generating the IntelliJ project from https://github.com/mpeltonen/sbt-idea

Getting it to work with SBT. Even generating the project with sbt idea I still can't get it to compile correctly. And I still haven't been able to get it attach a debugger.

I think the current issue is with SBT 0.13 which isn't supported by them right now.

I'm using SBT 0.13 on a fairly complex project. Not sure why it wouldn't work for you. What kind of project is it? Any specific frameworks you're using that are causing compilation errors?

Play2 pulling it in via SBT resolution so I don't have it "installed" on my development machine.

Are you doing "sbt idea" or "play idea?" From what I recall, "sbt idea" was broken, while doing it using the play launcher works, as they have some broken dependencies.

I use sbt idea. I can try play, but it would be great if it just worked.

Thing is, it does just work...if you follow the directions Play gives you once you create a new project. Namely, to use their play wrapper around sbt.

(I am not saying this is a good idea, but I am saying it "just works".)

In my experience the problem is usually sbt related. I found IntelliJ to work great with scala+Maven.

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