IDE support for Dotty, the experimental Scala compiler

Prerequisites

To use this in your own Scala project, you must first get it to compile with Dotty, please follow the instructions at https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty-example-project

Starting Visual Studio Code from sbt

First, make sure code, the binary for Visual Studio Code, is on your $PATH, this is the case if you can start the IDE by running code in a terminal. This is the default on all systems except Mac where you'll need to follow these instructions: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac#_command-line

If this is the case and your project successfully compiles with dotty, you can simply use the launchIDE command provided by the sbt-dotty plugin:

sbt launchIDE

More information

See https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/usage/ide-support.html