# Is there any IDE alternative to VSC+debugger?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** vscode, debugger
**Created:** [October 25, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754 "2024-10-25T16:56:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/1 "2024-10-25T16:56:22Z")

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With current state of the debugger in VSC only allowing to [run it once](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/3714#issuecomment-2438280077), the utility for me of VSC itself dropped to very low. Only the code navigation facilities still makes me using it.

Are there any alternatives (Sublime?, neovim?) that let us do interactive debugging too?

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### Author: ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/2 "2024-10-25T17:04:05Z")

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Is this a new problem with Julia 1.11, or does it also occur with Julia 1.10?

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### Author: ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/3 "2024-10-25T17:10:19Z")

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Julia 1.10 here

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### Author: ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/4 "2024-10-25T17:25:45Z")

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I mean, you can use [GitHub - JuliaDebug/Debugger.jl: Julia debugger](https://github.com/JuliaDebug/Debugger.jl) without using VSCode.

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### Author: ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/5 "2024-10-25T17:30:48Z")

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Yes, I could, but I quit that type of dubbuging some 30 years ago. 😄

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### Author: ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/6 "2024-10-25T17:40:59Z")

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I guess then you are out-of-luck (I would be happy if someone proofs me wrong). The Julia VSCode plugin has a limited quality, and this did not really improve in the last five years. I guess this will only change if a big company with a lot of funding steps in.

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### Author: ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/7 "2024-10-25T17:47:35Z")

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I’m afraid I fully agree with you. But then, Julia as a language has to openly admit that it doesn’t provide users with with a modern debugger.

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### Author: ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/8 "2024-10-25T17:51:52Z")

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Do you think any information provided [here](https://modernjuliaworkflows.org/writing/#debugging) is wrong?

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### Author: ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/9 "2024-10-25T17:53:35Z")

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Yes. This is currently false.

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/f/6/f6e2424cd0d54c6995ed28834f08b3bb921272d0.png)

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### Author: ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/10 "2024-10-25T17:55:22Z")

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So create an issue and tell the authors: [Issues · modernjuliaworkflows/modernjuliaworkflows.github.io · GitHub](https://github.com/modernjuliaworkflows/modernjuliaworkflows.github.io/issues)

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### Author: ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/11 "2024-10-25T17:56:38Z")

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I did. See link in my first post.

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### Author: ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/12 "2024-10-25T17:58:03Z")

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You didn’t report an issue for the website “modern Julia workflows”.  
Reporting issues to the authors of the VSCode Julia extension is nice, but usually has no effect, unless it is a very easily to fix issue. There are only two contributors to this software, and they are also busy with a lot of other tasks.

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### Author: ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/13 "2024-10-25T17:59:13Z")

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I think I reported where it should be reported.

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### Author: ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/14 "2024-10-25T18:02:04Z")

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> [@joa-quim](#):
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> Yes. This is currently false.

But you wrote: “Yes. This is currently false.” And if you want to have this statement corrected you need to create another issue at a different site.

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### 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: [October 25, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/15 "2024-10-25T18:31:12Z")

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I’m looking into that bug now

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### Author: ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/16 "2024-10-25T18:34:13Z")

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Thanks a lot. I think this is due to some modification in VSC itself as when it stop working I reverted to a couple VSC-JL-extension versions back to where it worked but the bug showed there as well.

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### 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: [October 26, 2024, 7:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/17 "2024-10-26T07:16:22Z")

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Pre-release build v1.127 should have a fix. Could someone try it and report back whether that solves it?

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### Author: ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/18 "2024-10-26T16:50:13Z")

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I’ll gladly try it, but how do I install a pre-release? I don’t see that option from “Install Specific Version…”

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### Author: ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/19 "2024-10-26T16:52:33Z")

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Just click on “Switch to Pre-Release Version”…

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### Author: ![joa-quim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joa-quim/32/227_2.png) [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-any-ide-alternative-to-vsc-debugger/121754/20 "2024-10-26T16:56:28Z")

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Thanks, blind of me. I had seen this before when I was not searching for it.

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