# Could not get Julia run on VS Code

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-get-julia-run-on-vs-code/7820>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** vscode\
**Created:** [December 17, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-get-julia-run-on-vs-code/7820 "2017-12-17T19:29:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Yifan\_Liu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4da419/32.png) [@Yifan\_Liu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Yifan_Liu)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-get-julia-run-on-vs-code/7820/1 "2017-12-17T19:29:21Z")

</div>

I want to try the Julia plug-in for VS code, I successfully got it working on my windows machine but could not get it working on my linux machine.

My OS is Fedora 25 and Julia 6.2 and I followed the instruction to add this line:

> “julia.executablePath”: “/usr/bin/julia”,

to the preference setting, but it didn’t work.

**update** : I solved this issue by using double forward slash…

Also, I could not find the work space that lists all my defined variables in VS Code. This kind of work space is available in Atom.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Elrod](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/elrod/32/22461_2.png) [@Elrod](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Elrod)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-get-julia-run-on-vs-code/7820/2 "2017-12-17T23:13:15Z")

</div>

Perhaps a really dumb question, but you made sure to confirm you have the executable at `/usr/bin/julia`? Ie,

```julia
$ ls /usr/bin

```

shows that `julia` is there (and not, for example, in `/usr/local/bin`)? You can also try that running `$ /usr/bin/julia` from the command line launches Julia.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Yifan\_Liu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4da419/32.png) [@Yifan\_Liu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Yifan_Liu)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-get-julia-run-on-vs-code/7820/3 "2017-12-18T01:05:29Z")

</div>

I did check that,

```julia
$whereis julia
$/usr/bin/julia

```

The path is correct

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-get-julia-run-on-vs-code/7820/4 "2017-12-18T04:47:45Z")

</div>

> [@Yifan\_Liu](#):
>
> update: I solved this issue by using double forward slash…

Backward slash, right? At least on Windows…

> [@Yifan\_Liu](#):
>
> Also, I could not find the work space that lists all my defined variables in VS Code. This kind of work space is available in Atom.

We don’t have that at the moment. We have a prototype, but it is not stable enough yet to include in the released version.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Yifan\_Liu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4da419/32.png) [@Yifan\_Liu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Yifan_Liu)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 5:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/could-not-get-julia-run-on-vs-code/7820/5 "2017-12-18T05:17:20Z")

</div>

Thanks for your work on the julia plug-in in VS Code. I installed VS Code with julia plug-in on all my machines (2 windows, 1 fedora, 1 centos) today, and I think I finally find the right editor for Julia.

Personal opinion:  
Atom it is just too slow, and takes too much cpu capacity when it is running. Also, I did not notice that it is almost 1G in windows and about 450 MB in Linux until I uninstalled it today, that is larger than most languages themselves.