Dotty Support in IntelliJ IDEA

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IntelliJ Scala plugin adds Dotty language support by reimplementing IDE parsing and a Dotty-aware type system rather than calling the compiler, with nightly builds offering union and intersection type resolution, basic refactorings, inspections and quick fixes, and incremental compilation via sbt working in the IDE. Trait parameters are still pending and expected in a couple weeks. Parser generation moves to a grammar-kit approach to support dialects; a Scala/Dotty install conflict exists until nightly plugin is used. A migration tool is planned.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:41About me
3. 1:11Warmup
4. 1:55Announcement
5. 2:32Why is this important
6. 3:21Creating a dirty project
7. 10:10Creating a new plugin
8. 10:45Why we do this
9. 14:24Goals
10. 15:39Plugins
11. 16:14Type System
12. 17:44What is Dotty
13. 18:49Motivation
14. 20:11Advantages and disadvantages
15. 21:51Future plans
16. 24:56Questions
17. 34:41Question
18. 36:19Strategy

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