Fork It Harder Make It Better

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Argument for and against forking the Scala toolchain centers on concrete fixes not slogans: catalog of experiments shows REPLs, worksheets and notebooks, implicit radar added to IntelliJ with two levels of detail, and a one‑click IntelliJ bundle that actually boots a Hello World. Demos include cargo publishing and crates version diffing that auto‑bumps versions, and a measured startup pain of 100 clicks to create a Scala project. Ongoing integrations—build server protocol and Metals—are being built and partially working to unify sbt mill bazel pants and caching via coursier.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:11Experiment
3. 7:38Editing
4. 11:04Compilers
5. 12:51Build Tools
6. 17:10Publishing Libraries
7. 26:49Scala IntelliJ
8. 30:06Integration

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