Hi there! I come from Python and more specifically, Spyder. Spyder has a wonderful variable explorer which has really optimized my workflow. Is there something similar for Julia? I had a quick look around here and in VS Code’s extensions but I got nothing.

Hello and welcome to the community. The variable explorer is available here [image]

If this is an important aspect for you I suggest to still use Atom/Juno. The variable explorer there is way more well-cured than what is currently available in the VSCode plugin…

Would be good to know what you’re missing in the VS Code extension compared to Juno.

Atom: [image] VSCode: [image] Some “features” that I miss is the workspace filtering and the click-to-go-to-definition present in Juno, but mostly is it a matter of readability: font size: note how in atom the Workspace font is bigger than the code font, in VSCode is the opposite the workspa…

So I agree that the defaults aren’t particularly pretty in VS Code, but you can configure many of these things: Font size: a combination of window.zoomLevel and editor.fontSize/terminal.integrated.fontSize allows you to increase the UI font size Fair, but also kinda intended. You can use a differe…

I remember seeing recent announcements of packages that could help with interactive exploration of Julia objects and code. I could only find this one in my quick search now, but there are others: [image] ANN: InteractiveCodeSearch.jl --- Interactively search Julia code Package Anno…

Eyeball.jl might’ve been the other one: [image] [ANN] Eyeball.jl: An interactive object viewer Package Announcements https://github.com/tshort/Eyeball.jl This was a fun hack over the holidays. This provides eye for interactively viewing objects in the REPL. Use it when yo…

[image] pfitzseb: Would be good to know what you’re missing in the VS Code extension compared to Juno. I don’t see that workspace in mine. Only see variables where matrices display like in this (very little usable) form. [image]

That’s the debugger variables viewer, no? Slightly different code, unfortunately, and slightly less useful in many cases.

[image] pfitzseb: There is filtering in all VS Code tree views – just start typing and a pop-up appears in the upper right Note that the vim extension modifies this. You have to type / first: Tree navigation does not work opened 08:2…

Is there a way to have a Variable Explorer in Julia?

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pfitzseb February 22, 2022, 2:19pm 8

Eyeball.jl might’ve been the other one:

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Is there a way to have a Variable Explorer in Julia?

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