# Julia No Longer Working In Atom

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-no-longer-working-in-atom/90667
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** atom
**Created:** [November 22, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-no-longer-working-in-atom/90667 "2022-11-22T21:02:48Z")
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### Author: ![mcket747](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mcket747/32/43043_2.png) [@mcket747](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mcket747)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-no-longer-working-in-atom/90667/1 "2022-11-22T21:02:48Z")

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Hello. I am new to Julia and I have been using Atom for the last few months. Suddenly, I am unable to run any of my code and I am not sure why. I know Atom is being sunset on December 15th, but I assumed I would still be able to run my code as usual. Any tips?

```julia
using Random, Parameters, DataFrames, Optim, Distributions, StatFiles, LinearAlgebra

cd("C:/Users/mcket/OneDrive/Documents/Fall 2022/ECON899-Computational/899Code/JF_PS2")

##Bring in data
data = DataFrame(load("Mortgage_performance_data1.dta"))

y = data[!,"duration"]
##Set y as our outcome vector

y = Array(y)

ind = ["score_0", "rate_spread", "i_large_loan", "i_medium_loan", "i_refinance", "age_r", "cltv", "dti", "cu", "first_mort_r", "i_FHA", "i_open_year2", "i_open_year3", "i_open_year4", "i_open_year5"]
x = data[!,ind] ##
z = data[!,["score_0", "score_1", "score_2"]] #Set our z vector
insertcols!(x, 16, :const => 1) #add a constant
x = Matrix(x)
z = Matrix(z)
beta = zeros(size(x,2)) #I counted sixteen variables in the problem set, plus a constant
N= size(x,1)

```

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### Author: ![jling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jling/32/212909_2.png) [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-no-longer-working-in-atom/90667/2 "2022-11-22T21:23:14Z")

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use VC Code, Atom is abandonware after Micro$oft bought out GitHub and basically killed Atom

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### Author: ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-no-longer-working-in-atom/90667/3 "2022-11-22T22:07:45Z")

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> [@mcket747](#):
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> Any tips?

Yes, Atom doesn’t work reliably now, even before the official sunset time. One of the dependent packages must have changed, perhaps. Tips include:

- show any error messages you see in your posts
- provide a MWE (ie self-contained example) that others can test
- list the output of package status command
- revert all packages (including Atom/Jumo) to earlier working versions. `Environments` are useful for this, and for “fixing” package versions…
- try the code in VS-Code (which isn’t so bad, for this former Atom user, at least).

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### Author: ![mcket747](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mcket747/32/43043_2.png) [@mcket747](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mcket747)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2022, 4:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-no-longer-working-in-atom/90667/4 "2022-11-23T04:48:08Z")

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Ah understood. Thanks.

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### Author: ![mcket747](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mcket747/32/43043_2.png) [@mcket747](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mcket747)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2022, 4:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-no-longer-working-in-atom/90667/5 "2022-11-23T04:49:14Z")

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Ah, okay. My code works fine in VS-Code so I think Ill just move there as that seems to be where everyone works. Thanks!
