I’m new to Julia and not what I would call an advanced programmer. I’m an engineer and I and know some languages including C and Python. I found Julia and find it very interesting.
I’d like to explain my problem of getting into Julia with an example: I often use programming to deal with data from measurements. I have large sets of various data, mostly in form of excel sheets or csv. To analyse these data I most often use Python. To do this, I use Spyder, write the necessary code (e.g. load exel data, perform some math-magic, draw some plots and spit out some values). I then have finished “scripts” i can always execute when i have new data to be analysed, or change/add functionality of the code.
I now found julia very promising, because it seems to have an even easier way to work with vectors, arrays or complex numbers.
But I cant seem to find an IDE that I can write my code and execute it, change a line, execute again …
I found the Julia console, which is not very applicable for my use case. Also stuff like Jupiter notebooks and alike seems like a terrible solution for my use case (or i just dont understand how to employ that). I installed JuliaPRO/Atom, which looks somewhat similar to Sypder, but there is no way of simply writing code in a file, press a Run button and have the code executed and your results in the console.
Can you maybe point me to a programming environment that is similar to Spyder for Python?
I’m not sure I understand how JuliaPRO/Atom (I assume you mean the Juno part of JuliaPro) does not achieve your aim? You can simply write a *.jl file and hit the run button (or Ctrl+Enter) to execute the code in the file and see the results in the integrated REPL and/or plot pane.
I’m pretty sure JuliaPro/JunoLab/Atom should have that functionality. That is the ‘default’ programming environment for Julia, I think it is safe to say. You can also try out VS Code with the Julia plugin for similar functionality.
uber-juno for atom, and julilang for vscode allow this. When your cursor is on a line of code you push (command+return) for atom and (control+return) in vscode.
Here are screenshots with 0.6.2, since you are using JuliaPro and m understanding is that JuliaPro is still on 0.6.
I think the shortcut for running the whole file is Ctrl+shift+enter? Not at a computer so can’t check at the moment.
Atom itself is just a text editor (developed by GitHub) and not specifically built for Julia. The Juno packages turns it I to a Julia IDE with a bunch of extra functionality. IIRC it used to add a sidebar with buttons, though now that you bring it up I haven’t seen them for a while. I never used them (the keyboard shortcuts are what I use).
