There&#x27;s just one sad trouble with the current state of tooling: Scala and SBT in IntelliJ IDEA do not go together.<p>Each Scala run inside SBT-enabled project takes &gt;10 secs minimum to run. Every single run. SBT make is invoking the full SBT startup sequence and is unable to reuse the session.  This comes from the context of using Play Framework where you can&#x27;t substitute SBT with something else.<p>I do hope that SBT server becomes a reality at some point and IntelliJ Scala plugin is able to fully use it.