Scala Tools & Libraries Wish List [closed]

Question

Which tools or libraries do you wish existed in the Scala ecosystem? Are there any existing ones you wish were greatly improved?

Answer 1

In no particular order:

A Scala version of the Clojure Incanter libraries would be very handy indeed, and could probably be even nicer to use than Clojure's.

It would also be exceptionally cool if the parallel version of the 2.8 collection library had been ready for (todays!) 2.8 release, rather than waiting for 2.8.1. Even cooler would be something with the power and feel of the 2.8 collection library which offloaded calculations to something like Hadoop.

Standard library support for software transactional memory would be very nice.

The IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Scala is an amazing piece of work, but (unsurprisingly) still lags behind Java in some annoying ways, particularly in on-the-fly error reporting.

There need to be some standard shims built so that various "enterprise" libraries (Spring/Hibernate/Ibatis/Freemarker, etc.) can use Scala objects without scattering @BeanProperty annotations around and without using Java collections objects.

Answer 2

• A single lib for time, money and physical units would be cool
• Scala Swing should be more complete (and more consistent)
• Would be nice if the DBC lib for wrapping JDBC access would be finished
• A Scala 3D engine would be awesome. Simplex3D and Sgine are on the way, but it's a long way...