Metals VS hoogle

Compare Metals vs hoogle and see what are their differences.

Metals

Scala language server with rich IDE features 🚀 (by scalameta)

hoogle

Haskell API search engine (by ndmitchell)
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Metals hoogle
18 60
2,013 714
1.4% -
9.8 6.3
6 days ago about 2 months ago
Scala Haskell
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Metals

Posts with mentions or reviews of Metals. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
  • Reconnecting with Scala. What's new?
    7 projects | /r/scala | 24 May 2023
    Links: - https://dotty.epfl.ch/ - https://scala-native.org/en/stable/ - https://www.scala-js.org/ - https://typelevel.org/ - https://zio.dev/ - https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/pull/3120 - https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/16517 - https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/experimental/index.html - https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/ - https://scalameta.org/metals/ - https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/guides/migration/compatibility-intro.html - https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2023/04/18/faster-scalajs-development-with-frontend-tooling.html - https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2022/08/17/long-term-compatibility-plans.html
  • Tmux, NeoVim, etc. to write pure Kotlin code?
    2 projects | /r/Kotlin | 30 Apr 2023
    You might want to look at Scala, they have proper LSP support with metals which means you can write your code in vscode, neovim, emacs, or even fleet (the new jetbrains text editor).
  • New plugin to support LSP file operations
    6 projects | /r/neovim | 9 Jan 2023
    Please write in the comments if you know of any language servers I should test it with. Currently I tested only metals and rust-analyzer.
  • Why are all the guides on using LSP functionality full of bloat?
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 26 Dec 2022
    If you are using nvim-lspconfig you can pass the settings as a Lua table to the setup function. For example, here are may metals settings:
  • Type-Signature.com
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2022
  • What is the one thing you need everyday to make your job easier?
    2 projects | /r/AskMen | 16 Oct 2022
    Bazel support in Metals. I didn't spend all that time figuring out and adjusting Emacs/Spacemacs and making my workflow (almost) mouse-free just to scrap my config and switch to IDEA's rodent infested ways.
  • Scala 2.13.9 is here
    3 projects | /r/scala | 21 Sep 2022
    There is one small issue involving code completion returning inappropriate completions in some cases; https://github.com/scalameta/metals/pull/4414 will fix it, once it's included in a release. Perhaps that's the PR you saw?
  • Scala Isn't Fun Anymore
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2022
    It is, by quite a bit.

    While the "Scala IDE" project is dead for all practical purposes, IntelliJ IDEA's Scala plugin is actually pretty amazing. There's also a VisualStudio plugin that does pretty much the same and is advancing by leaps and bounds. There are also interconnecting projects that provide i.e. language server or build server that are reused by other projects. It's pretty modular. Metals (https://scalameta.org/metals/) is amazing.

    In general the language has become a wee bit faster to build, there was good progress with build times during the 2.12/2.13 cycles.

    With Scala3 the language got a bit simpler; concepts that were implemented explicitly using (hehe) implicits got their own keywords and a lot of the opinionated boilercode that cause a lot of debates is now generated during complication and hidden. A lot of "standardization" has occurred.

  • A Python-compatible statically typed language erg-lang/erg
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2022
  • What is your favorite programming language?
    9 projects | /r/archlinux | 20 Dec 2021
    Have a look at https://scalameta.org/metals/

hoogle

Posts with mentions or reviews of hoogle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Metals and hoogle you can also consider the following projects:

intellij-plugins - Open-source plugins included in the distribution of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other IDEs based on the IntelliJ Platform

Jupyter Scala - A Scala kernel for Jupyter

castle - A tool to manage shared cabal-install sandboxes.

sbt - sbt, the interactive build tool

bloop - Bloop is a build server and CLI tool to compile, test and run Scala fast from any editor or build tool.

Scalastyle - scalastyle

ghci-ng

scalajs-benchmark - Benchmarks: write in Scala or JS, run in your browser. Live demo:

dotty - The Scala 3 compiler, also known as Dotty.

intellij-scala-bundle - IntelliJ Scala Bundle - get started with Scala in a single click!

hakyll - A static website compiler library in Haskell

ihaskell - A Haskell kernel for the Jupyter project.