Hi Julia community! I’m new to posting here (this is my first one :-)) and wasn’t sure the right place to post, but I’d like to share that Colab now provides the Julia language in our runtimes ( Julia as a language in runtimes · Issue #5151 · googlecolab/colabtools · GitHub ). Right up front, I work…

This is huge, thank you! Is it possible to use Colab for teaching an introduction course for Julia?

I would imagine so. At SIGCSE 2025, this was definitely a topic that came up.

Wow, neat! I wasn’t aware of Reactant. Nice!

Wow! This is incredible news @metrizable ! It sounds like you had an outsize role in making this happen alongside your team – many thanks! This has been a requested feature for years so it is exciting to see it happen. I know it is your first time posting on Discourse so welcome to the Julia Discour…

NOTE FROM THE FUTURE: @roflmaostc noted that I forgot to synchronize the GPU call, leading to timing only the kernel launch :frowning: . They have included this synchronization (CUDA.@sync $xGPU + $yGPU) and provided the correct benchmarking code and plot here . ====================================…

That’s good news, now we have to knock the door on Kaggle Notebooks :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Lazy question: how do I set a path to subfolders? (My notebook is at Google Drive and I can run it, but when I do pwd() I get "/content")

As of a couple months ago , Kaggle started deriving their Docker images from Colab’s public releases, so this is a real possibility in the near future. Colab hasn’t pushed the image with the Julia kernel to the public repo yet, but some time following this at least the bits should be there.

Congratulations! That’s a big thing and a great opportunity for growing up the community. Ju Pyt R, revisited :balloon::upside_down_face:

Julia in Colab

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raman_kumar March 6, 2025, 9:42am 10

Can we run PLUTO notebook in Google Collab?

Pluto notebooks on Colab's kernel proxy port

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