# Slow start up and package loading times

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/slow-start-up-and-package-loading-times/52639>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package, startup\
**Created:** [December 30, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/slow-start-up-and-package-loading-times/52639 "2020-12-30T23:57:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![albertoguiggiani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/albertoguiggiani/32/20700_2.png) [@albertoguiggiani](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/albertoguiggiani)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/slow-start-up-and-package-loading-times/52639/7 "2021-01-01T02:03:34Z")

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My loading times were nowhere slow as yours, but I recently switched from Atom to VS Code and noticed a sensible improvement in both starting the REPL and using modules.

You can check this talk for a brief tutorial in setting it up:

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/b/eb6c31d0045ac5c8ead70ff0474f3e12ca2eb47f.jpeg "JuliaCon 2020 | Using VS Code for Julia development | David Anthoff") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdhnP00Y1Ks)

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