Metals
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Dec 9, 2025first mention
Aug 22, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“For example, see Metals[0].”
“The Metals documentation includes instructions for setting it up with Emacs. I followed them, and everything works”
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“Metals + Neovim to be truly wonderful”
“The most reliable Scala IDE is currently Metals”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
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Data: metals.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“For example, see Metals[0].”
“Metals is architectured in a completely different way, see the BSP”
“The Metals documentation includes instructions for setting it up with Emacs. I followed them, and everything works”
“InteliJ plugin is much further than Metals”
“the upcoming Metals v2 that's using another compiler frontend optimized for performance”
“Metals + Neovim to be truly wonderful”
“The most reliable Scala IDE is currently Metals”