Dotty comes built-in with the Dotty Language Server, an implementation of the Language Server Protocol, which means that any editor that implements the LSP can be used as a Dotty IDE. Currently, the only IDE we officially support is Visual Studio Code.

Prerequisites

To use this in your own Scala project, you must first get it to compile with Dotty, please follow the instructions at https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty-example-project

Usage

1. Install Visual Studio Code.
2. Make sure code, the binary for Visual Studio Code, is on your $PATH, this is the case if you can start the IDE by running code in a terminal. This is the default on all systems except Mac where you'll need to follow these instructions: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac#_command-line
3. In your project, run:

sbt launchIDE

Status

Fully supported features:

• Typechecking as you type to show compiler errors/warnings
• Type information on hover
• Go to definition (in the current project)
• Find all references
• Documentation on hover
• Worksheet mode

Partially working features:

• Completion
• Renaming
• Go to definition in external projects

Unimplemented features:

• Formatting code (requires integrating with scalafmt)
• Quick fixes (probably by integrating with scalafix)

Current limitations, to be fixed:

• Projects should be compiled with sbt before starting the IDE, this is automatically done for you if you run sbt launchIDE.
• Once the IDE is started, source files that are not opened in the IDE should not be modified in some other editor, the IDE won't pick up these changes.
• Not all compiler errors/warnings are displayed, just those occurring during typechecking.

Feedback

Please report issues on https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues, you can also come chat with use on the Dotty gitter channel!