# Julia Spacemacs layer

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-spacemacs-layer/9584>\
**Category:** Tooling\
**Created:** [March 8, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-spacemacs-layer/9584 "2018-03-08T02:39:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![111](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/111/32/33971_2.png) [@111](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/111)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-spacemacs-layer/9584/21 "2018-08-10T06:36:38Z")

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This is spacemacs, merge is happening everyday, but still 1909 issues and 165 PRs left. Maybe they just don’t think julia matters.

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**Author:** ![gdkrmr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gdkrmr/32/2791_2.png) [@gdkrmr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gdkrmr)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 6:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-spacemacs-layer/9584/22 "2018-08-10T06:57:14Z")

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I think the issue is that the core devs of spacemacs are not data scientists and none of them uses julia or R so these layers are too low on their priority list.

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**Author:** ![gdkrmr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gdkrmr/32/2791_2.png) [@gdkrmr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gdkrmr)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-spacemacs-layer/9584/23 "2018-08-10T16:15:24Z")

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It seems that there is finally something happening with the PR.

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**Author:** ![non-Jedi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/non-jedi/32/3645_2.png) [@non-Jedi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/non-Jedi)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2018, 12:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-spacemacs-layer/9584/24 "2018-08-12T00:54:28Z")

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As of today, the Julia spacemacs layer has been merged to the develop branch of spacemacs. Should be a lot easier to try out now. 🙂

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**Author:** ![00vareladavid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/00vareladavid/32/23521_2.png) [@00vareladavid](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/00vareladavid)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-spacemacs-layer/9584/25 "2018-08-12T02:19:29Z")

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First of all, thanks; spacemacs is primary development environment and I’ve been coding mostly Julia lately.

Second, how would exactly would I try out the new layer 😁 ? Adding `julia` to my `dotspacemacs-configuration-layers` doesn’t seem to be working.

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**Author:** ![jkbest2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jkbest2/32/7350_2.png) [@jkbest2](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jkbest2)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-spacemacs-layer/9584/26 "2018-08-12T02:53:37Z")

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I’d like to say thank you as well! I’ve been using it for a couple months now and it’s been great.

@00vareladavid you need to be on the `develop` branch and have pulled the latest version sometime today.

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