Does Eclipse plugin have to be written in Java?

Question

I read some tutorials about making Eclipse plugins, but every text was just about Java coding. Does it really have to be Java or there is some way to write a plugin in some other JVM language such as Scala or Clojure?

Answer 1

You can use all languages that are based on JVM. You need to simply add a dependency jar (e.g. Scala dependency).

Tested live, so it must work!

Answer 2

Current version of Scala IDE is written in Scala