Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it
Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)
Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it
Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)
This is my attempt to give Scala newcomers a quick-and-easy rundown to the prerequisite steps they need to a) try Scala, and b) get a standard project up and running on their machine. I'm not going to talk about the language at all; there are plenty of better resources a google search away. This is just focused on the prerequisite tooling and machine setup. I will not be assuming you have any background in JVM languages. So if you're coming from Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Haskell, or anywhere… I hope to present the information you need without assuming anything.
Disclaimer It has been over a decade since I was new to Scala, and when I was new to Scala, I was coming from a Java and Ruby background. This has probably caused me to unknowingly make some assumptions. Please feel free to call me out in comments/tweets!
One assumption I'm knowingly making is that you're on a Unix-like platform. Sorry, Windows users.