I have been working on a new Julia IDE for some time. It’s called JuliaJunction.
It is build in Rust specifically for Julia development. It uses an embedded installation of Julia and it has embedded plot navigation, variable browsing and debugging.
The software still is in beta testing and has some rough edges, but I already would like to get your opinion on it. Search for the JuliaJunction website online; I am not allowed to use links in this post.
Make sure you have enough diskspace, as it installs Julia and uses its own Julia depot.
What do you like or dislike? Are there any crucial features still missing? Currently it is only available for Windows, but in the end it will be cross-platform.
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I remember seeing a post from you in the julia subreddit.
I went again to the website and it has changed a bit but I still don’t see the selling point of the closed source versus VScode. I don’t understand what “better integrated than VScode” or “designed for Julia” means. In the end, you are using LanguageServer.jl, or?
It would be interesting to say something about how you implemented a debugger. That is a bit of a downer to use in VScode so it is interesting to see how it works, especially in large codebases.
The rest… I don’t know. It it install its own julia? So do I have control over which julia version I am using, can I still use things like juliaup to change julia versions?
I was also curious and started to try it. The possibility of a better debugger and the possibility of inspecting variables during debugging (if confirmed) caught my curiosity. But than it requires me to create an account somewhere in order to use it (???). Why is that? Does it mean that it would require a internet connection to be usable?