It is very inconvenient to use Mill in idea.

[Bleibtreu]

I am a beginner learning Scala. I used SBT before, and this time I want to try Mill.
I found that creating the first project with Mill in IDEA is quite difficult. IDEA cannot quickly recognize Mill projects, and for a single-module project at the beginning, it cannot identify the path to the Scala main function. Maybe I don’t understand Mill well, but I think this is a big obstacle for beginners learning and using Mill.

For example, after creating a project with SBT, you just need to write the build.sbt file, and the changes can be applied immediately. IDEA automatically recognizes it, and you can start coding directly. But with Mill, you still need to manually handle the version, module directories, IDEA JDK configuration, etc. When creating submodules, IDEA only provides options for sbt, maven, and cli. After choosing one, it creates a lot of useless files and still cannot correctly recognize the files within the module.

I want to ask, when you use Mill in IDEA to quickly start a project, do you also manually handle the directories? Can I experience the same convenience in Mill as I do with SBT in IDEA?

[lihaoyi]

Hi @Bleibtreu ! Did you follow the IDE setup instructions over at https://mill-build.org/mill/cli/installation-ide.html? I would have expected Intellij to automatically recognize a project with a build.mill file and import it upon opening the folder, and you should be able to load build file updates into intellij as described on that page. If that's not happening maybe something is going wrong, or you might be going through an unusual workflow that we haven't tested yet

[Bleibtreu]

Yes, I've tried it， This is OK，However, the directory and the starting structure need to be manually constructed.

[lefou]

This feature request should be reported against IntelliJ IDEA. We can't implement any IDE feature here.