Another Java vs. Scala perspective - is this typical?

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Published on 2010-03-20T20:52:33Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 21:01 UTC
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I have been reading about Scala for a while and even wrote some small programs to better understand some of the more exoteric features.

Today I decided to do my first "real project", translating some 60 lines of ugly Java code to Scala to rewrite it using the better pattern-matching features (why? because the Java version was becoming hard to maintain due to excessive combination of regex and conditionals).

About halfway through the editing process, Eclipse thew up this error:

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I get the general impression that the Scala IDE in Eclipse is a lot buggier and less complete than its Java equivalent. Is this correct or do I just have a bad installation? Is there a better IDE for Scala?

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