Visual Studio Code
(VS Code) has been my favorite editor for years. With the numerous extensions and community support, VS Code has become one of the most popular editors for programming.
Windows Subsystem for Linux
(WSL) lets developers run a Linux environment directly on Windows. The powerful combination of these two provides programmers a great way to write software.
VS Code has excellent language support, including Scala. Most Scala developers use
IntelliJ
as their development tool. Therefore, not many tutorials exist for using VS Code as a Scala development tool. This article is a brief tutorial of the VS Code setup for Scala programming on WSL. Hopefully, it could provide useful information for setting up the Scala development environment.
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Assumptions and Requirements
This tutorial is written with the following setup:
.settings(
name := "Sample Project",
libraryDependencies += "org.scalatest" %% "scalatest" % "3.2.2" % Test,
