# Difficulty compiling in Atom

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [August 11, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626 "2022-08-11T15:21:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![RaquelSantos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raquelsantos/32/3668_2.png) [@RaquelSantos](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RaquelSantos)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/1 "2022-08-11T15:21:35Z")

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Hello everybody

I installed julia and it’s working, but I can’t compile anything, it’s like the IDE (Atom) isn’t seeing any commands I give.  
Has it ever happened to anyone?  
What should I do?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![jacobusmmsmit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jacobusmmsmit/32/217669_2.png) [@jacobusmmsmit](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jacobusmmsmit)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/2 "2022-08-11T15:25:27Z")

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Hi Raquel,

Please provide more information as to what you are doing and you are expecting to happen versus what actually happens.

What do you mean when you say you can’t compile anything? What commands are you giving?

We can help you much better if we know more specifics 🙂

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**Author:** ![digital\_carver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/digital_carver/32/33818_2.png) [@digital\_carver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/digital_carver)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/3 "2022-08-11T15:30:35Z")

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Also, note that the Atom support for Julia is pretty outdated by now, and Atom has even been discontinued as an editor by its owners Microsoft/Github. Nowadays, VS Code with the [Julia extension](https://www.julia-vscode.org/) is the recommended IDE for development.

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**Author:** ![RaquelSantos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raquelsantos/32/3668_2.png) [@RaquelSantos](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RaquelSantos)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/4 "2022-08-11T15:45:34Z")

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Hi @jacobusmmsmit , thanks for answering me

I’m trying to do simple things like:

```julia
a = 1
b = 3
c = a+b
println(c)

```

I hit Ctrl + Enter on each line and it’s like nothing happens

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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/5 "2022-08-11T15:52:20Z")

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How did you install Juno? Did you use `uber-juno`?

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**Author:** ![RaquelSantos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raquelsantos/32/3668_2.png) [@RaquelSantos](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RaquelSantos)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/6 "2022-08-11T16:53:07Z")

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Hi @nilshg

Yes, I used uber-juno

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**Author:** ![gdalle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gdalle/32/27854_2.png) [@gdalle](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gdalle)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/7 "2022-08-11T17:42:10Z")

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Is Atom aware of the path to your julia executable?  
I can only second the advice of @digital_carver to switch to VSCode though, the extension for Julia works like a charm

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**Author:** ![RaquelSantos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raquelsantos/32/3668_2.png) [@RaquelSantos](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RaquelSantos)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/8 "2022-08-11T18:37:08Z")

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Yes it is. Well, I’m thinking of migrating to VSCode

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Boyer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nathan_boyer/32/14825_2.png) [@Nathan\_Boyer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nathan_Boyer)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/9 "2022-08-11T19:57:00Z")

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If you followed the [Juno installation instructions](https://docs.junolab.org/latest/man/installation/) (sounds like you did), it should work. Did you try restarting your computer?

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**Author:** ![RaquelSantos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raquelsantos/32/3668_2.png) [@RaquelSantos](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RaquelSantos)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/10 "2022-08-12T11:02:14Z")

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Hey @Nathan_Boyer

I tried yes, and it didn’t work ☹

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**Author:** ![RaquelSantos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raquelsantos/32/3668_2.png) [@RaquelSantos](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RaquelSantos)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/11 "2022-08-12T11:02:56Z")

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Hey @digital_carver

Thanks for the tip!

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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difficulty-compiling-in-atom/85626/12 "2022-08-12T13:29:11Z")

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Did you get any errors? I just tried a clean install and it failed for me as the `indent-detective` package couldn’t be found