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0 pointspkolaczk8y ago0 comments

I also encountered way more IDE bugs in Scala than in Java. Actually during the full last year of development of a real-world commercial Scala project I encountered 0 bugs in Java and 2 bugs in Scala.

What about more objective measures? Scala plugin issue tracker: 11667 issues. Kotlin plugin issue tracker: 17664 issues.

And this difference is despite Scala being longer on the market and being more popular than Kotlin.

It looks like Scala IDE support is actually better than that of Kotlin.

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dahauns8y ago

How on earth is this an objective measure for plugin quality? There's so much you can interpret into these numbers that they are borderline meaningless.

pkolaczkOP8y ago

It is objective measure - it may not be a perfect metric, but definitely objective. If there are more issues relative to the number of programmers this means there are either more bugs, users have more questions, and/or just more feature requests (which means - the plugin is lacking features). Also both plugins share the exactly same bug tracker and the same issue filing process, so you can't argue it is easier to report errors for one over another.

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