Julia in VSCode occasionally crashes upon pressing ctrl+C

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Recently, I have repeatedly encountered a problem seemingly specific to Julia in VSCode.

Occasionally, I will press ctrl+C just to get a clean REPL line (so not to cancel a running command), and Julia will simply crash. A stacktrace will appear on the screen very briefly, but then unfortunately VSCode closes the window. With a bit of luck, I eventually managed to get perfectly timed screenshots of the error messages that appear:

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I’d be interested in any insight on what causes this to happen, and how to prevent this.

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I’m not sure exactly what you mean here, but to just visually clear up the current REPL screen, you can press Ctrl+L instead.

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I didn’t mean a clear REPL; I just meant a new line to start working on. So the net result should be the same as just holding backspace.

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