# Julia and Nova?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-nova/94012
**Category:** Tooling
**Tags:** question, ide, editors
**Created:** [February 3, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-nova/94012 "2023-02-03T20:09:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![marianoarnaiz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/marianoarnaiz/32/19377_2.png) [@marianoarnaiz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/marianoarnaiz)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-nova/94012/1 "2023-02-03T20:09:09Z")

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Hi all.

I wonder if anyone is using Nova with Julia?  
I do not like Visual Code Studio and I wonder what IDE are you using

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### Author: ![prittjam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/prittjam/32/21267_2.png) [@prittjam](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/prittjam)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-nova/94012/2 "2023-02-03T20:55:40Z")

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emacs with lsp-mode, projectile, ivy, etc; it can’t be beat. no silly interface to get in the way of coding. setup can be a bit painful if you’re not proficient with elisp. my fingers never leave the keyboard and code browsing is frictionless. I also tried vs code and my productivity went down.

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### Author: ![Krastanov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/krastanov/32/6817_2.png) [@Krastanov](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Krastanov)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-nova/94012/3 "2023-02-03T21:07:30Z")

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It is possible in principle as Nova supports the Language Server interface [LanguageClient - Nova](https://docs.nova.app/api-reference/language-client/) which is implemented for Julia as well. But someone needs to take care of setup (or make a Nova plugin that takes care of setup). If you want to contribute that to the Nova and Julia communities, this is probably where you should start: [Nova](https://docs.nova.app/syntax-reference/)
