Create your first IntelliJ Plugin with Scala

demo based on my Google Summer of Code project

Bartosz Janota

IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ in numbers

Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. We have worked with the open source community to identify and fund exciting projects for the upcoming summer.

Who and how?

GSoC in numbers

me & GSoC 2015

AutoMan Monitoring and Debugging Plugin

for IntelliJ IDEA

AutoMan allows programmers to write sophisticated human-computer programs, current problems:

• humans behave very differently than computers
• programs that manage hundreds or thousands of workers
•  copious status messages only on STDOUT

Technical challenges

• They have a basic information-reporting facility in AutoMan, that allows information to be exported - needs refinement - some hacking in Scala
• AutoMan is highly concurrent and IntelliJ Plugins need to be thread-safe using IntelliJ's concurrency model - these models ale totally different (threads vs. futures/actors)
• Reusable frontend
• 100% Scala

What I did

http://www.bartoszjanota.com/AID

How to start

http://www.bartoszjanota.com/Coding IntelliJ Plugin in Scala - first steps

https://github.com/BartoszJanota/intellij-plugin-in-scala-example