Intellij plugin about grafter HOT 12 CLOSED

Sorry, for some reason I thought it was 2.12+. I'll have to find some time to look into it properly.

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Hi Shane, thanks for this plugin! I haven't been using the annotations much yet but I am going to try your plugin and will let you know.

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Instead of doing a plugin for Idea it would be better to switch from the deprecated macros to scala.meta.
Idea supports natively Scala.meta and this let us get ride of macro paradise.
Anyway we will have to switch one day or another.

See: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/9044-a-new-macro-system-for-scala

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For sure there should be meta support. I suspect this will help with the compilation time issues in #20. It's something I was hoping to look into when I next have some free time.

I guess there's also the question of what kind of legacy version support this library wants to offer as to whether Macro support sticks around.

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What mean is that it would be a wast of time to code a plugin for Idea instead of using Scala.meta which is supposed to offer the cross scala version support.

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Scala.meta's scala versions: https://github.com/scalameta/scalameta/blob/master/build.sbt#L8
Grafter's scala versions: https://github.com/zalando/grafter/blob/master/build.sbt#L52

Sounds like it should work :)
Thanks @shanethehat for your help!

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@joan38 this looks like the right direction, I might have a go at it if I find the time.

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I'm not sure that Meta is quite at the point that it can be used for this. Its tokenizing seems solid, but the macro support depends on a new Paradise plugin that currently only seems to support 2.11. A 3.0.0 release looks like it's not far off, but without that I don't think it can be used for annotation based macros.

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I'm not too familiar with the scalameta paradise plugin, but release 3.0.0-M8 is now built for Scala 2.11.11 and 2.12.2. Has scalameta now become a viable solution? (including annotation based macros)?

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Just as a note, we cannot use scala 2.12.2 yet - see #63

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@dvic yes scalameta might be a solution now but we don't have much bandwidth to try it out at the moment.

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I am going to close this for now. The solution is not scalameta which brings its own set of problems (scalameta/scalameta#1051 for example). Let's revisit this when we can do #96

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