scalac-cosmetics: pretty printer for Scala type errors

What's the problem?

Scala's type errors can be hard to read, in particular if there are complex typed involved.

How does scalac-cosmetics help?

It acts as a post-processor for scalac output and pretty-prints error messages, in particular types. Currently the only supported mode is piping sbt output throw scalac-cosmetics (interactive sessions supported).

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State of this project

Early stage. Things can change at any time.

Installation:

git clone git@github.com:cvogt/scalac-cosmetics.git
cd scalac-cosmetics
sbt assembly

Usage (adjust path):

sbt | java -jar scalac-cosmetics/target/scala-2.11/scalac-cosmetics-assembly-0.1.jar