Total beginner to programming & Scala, what would you suggest to get them started?

What is the current status of that?

I started out using that, and I left it because of the workflow:

  • start an eclipse project
  • fail to add dependencies
  • try to make the eclipse project into an sbt project
  • fail
  • throw everything away
  • start an sbt project
  • eclipsify the project
  • work in eclipse until it stops working for one or the other reason
  • try to fix the project in sbt
  • re-eclipsify
  • hope it works
  • do things to get the eclipse environment and the sbt environment in sync (environment variables/java version, scala version)
  • ask around
  • nobody uses scala-IDE

Scala-IDE didn’t use to be a solution: realistically speaking your build is going to be sbt based, and keeping your sbt build and eclipse project in sync used to be a non-trivial exercise.

As long as that’s still the case - if it is still the case - Scala-IDE isn’t a good start for new scala programmers IMO.

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