> There's still a working Eclipse plugin?

For Scala 2, yes, or there was the last I looked. Still the best Scala development experience by some margin, sadly.

> Metals uses directly the compiler for all code intelligence so it's as reliable as the compiler itself.

Not my experience; maybe it theoretically should be but the integration/bridging piece is still flaky.

> or Scala 2, yes, or there was the last I looked. Still the best Scala development experience by some margin, sadly.

I can't find it.

Could you link to that "best Scala development experience by some margin"?

All I know is that the Eclipse plugin is dead since about one decade. But maybe I just missed something.

> the integration/bridging piece is still flaky

What concrete issues do you have?

I'm using Metals on a daily basis and don't know about any such problems.

Could it be that the last time you've seen Scala (if you actually ever seen it at all) was about 10 years ago?

The discussions here on HN regarding Scala seem always massively dishonest, with a lot of people always spreading outright FUD for some reason I don't understand…