Open-sourcing Metals v2: Databricks’ Java and Scala language server for multi‑million line codebases

A look at how Databricks moved its JVM development onto lightweight editors: the platform flywheel behind standardizing on one IDE, the adoption data showing the shift, and the engineering inside Metals v2, including a build-free repo index, compiler-backed pipelines, and a metadata-first build integration.

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