# Julia support for GitHub Codespaces
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-support-for-github-codespaces/46436
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [September 11, 2020, 7:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-support-for-github-codespaces/46436 "2020-09-11T07:40:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@oschulz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oschulz)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 7:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-support-for-github-codespaces/46436/1 "2020-09-11T07:40:12Z")
Just got my beta access to [GitHub Codespaces](https://github.com/features/codespaces) (online VS code in GitHub). Codespaces allows for [choosing a container](https://docs.github.com/en/github/developing-online-with-codespaces/configuring-codespaces-for-your-project#using-a-pre-built-container-configuration) to run in - but while there’s already lot’s of pre-built containers for Python, Java, Perl, Ruby, etc. [there isn’t one for Julia yet](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/master/containers).
Should we [contribute](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/master/container-templates) one? I guess we can just do a PR on [https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers) .
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### Author:  [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-support-for-github-codespaces/46436/2 "2020-09-11T09:25:46Z")
There was a `.devcontainer` file in the Julia repository. See [Compile Julia from source with ease in VS Code (even on Windows!)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/compile-julia-from-source-with-ease-in-vs-code-even-on-windows/35696) for instructions on connecting to various VS code instances. I am not sure if the process is the same for github codespaces.
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### Author:  [@jlperla](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jlperla)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-support-for-github-codespaces/46436/3 "2020-09-11T13:09:07Z")
[https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/pull/450](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/pull/450)
Getting close!
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### Author:  [@oschulz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oschulz)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-support-for-github-codespaces/46436/5 "2020-09-11T14:44:54Z")
Oh, nice, had overlooked that PR. Should have known that @davidanthoff was on it already. .-)
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 7:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-support-for-github-codespaces/46436/6 "2020-09-11T19:51:04Z")
We also already have support for Codespaces in the [Yggdrasil repository](https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/) (also provided by David!), which can be a good alternative for Windows users that can’t run BinaryBuilder locally.
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### Author:  [@oschulz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oschulz)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-support-for-github-codespaces/46436/7 "2020-09-11T20:02:51Z")
Oh, nice, that looks very straightforward.
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### Author:  [@e3c6](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/e3c6)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-support-for-github-codespaces/46436/8 "2020-11-03T12:18:34Z")
I get the following error in Codespaces, when trying to work on the Julia repo:
How can I fix this?