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I program in Scala at work full time using Intellij and I'm having a great experience. No weird compilation errors, quick, responsive. Works almost as well as with Java files.

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Awesome. My own experience is more with Scala IDE, which is terrible. I tried IntelliJ for a brief time last year, saw it had spurious compilation errors, and the gurus at my office told me it was even worse than Scala IDE (but you know how gurus are...).

Out of curiosity:

- Do you have incremental compilation enabled with IntelliJ?

- Do you ever experience a compile error in the IDE for code that SBT is able to compile successfully?

Our codebase is a few years old so we are using maven for our builds instead of SBT. I've been using the intellij incremental compiler and it seems to work well. Once in a while it will complain so I hit the reimport button on maven and then its fine. There is no code in our codebase that maven compiles but Intellij can't. I do remember using spray.io and Intellij had a hard time with that library but recently the problem has gone away.

IntelliJ's Scala support has improved leaps and bounds the past 6 months. I'd give it another try if you have the opportunity.

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