# VS code and Juila system image?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-and-juila-system-image/121409
**Category:** VS Code
**Created:** [October 17, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-and-juila-system-image/121409 "2024-10-17T04:30:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@mcreel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mcreel)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-and-juila-system-image/121409/1 "2024-10-17T04:30:44Z")
I haven’t been coding much lately, so I’m a bit out of touch with recent developments. In the past, VScode-julia would find and use a system image in the project directory, but that seems not to be the case now. From a plain linux zsh, the system image works fine. Also, the previously available build task to create a system image does not seem to be present. Am I missing something, or has system image support been removed?
using v 1.124.2 of the extension, and Julia 1.11, with juliaup
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2024, 5:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-and-juila-system-image/121409/2 "2024-10-17T05:09:03Z")
We removed the feature because our sense was that is was rarely used and it was hard to maintain, plus now that native code is stored by Julia itself the use-case for creating custom system images is much less strong…
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### Author:  [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2024, 6:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-and-juila-system-image/121409/3 "2024-10-17T06:02:32Z")
On more reason not use the VSCode Julia shell, but a plain Bash shall from within VSCode so that you can start Julia with any parameters you need, or with a script.
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### Author:  [@mcreel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mcreel)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2024, 6:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-and-juila-system-image/121409/4 "2024-10-17T06:34:14Z")
OK, thanks, that’s understandable. It’s true that it’s not needed nearly as much as before. I will try out the persistent session tmux stuff. That could accomplish more or less the same result, for me at least.
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### Author:  [@mcreel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mcreel)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2024, 6:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-and-juila-system-image/121409/5 "2024-10-17T06:35:28Z")
I use Vscode-julia mostly to run blocks of code interactively when teaching, so I think I need the vscode shell for that, no?
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### Author:  [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-and-juila-system-image/121409/6 "2024-10-17T11:33:22Z")
Well, you can always just copy and past blocks of code into the REPL. And yes, using the VSCode Julia shell makes that more convenient, but it is a matter of taste, everything has advantages and disadvantages.
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### Author:  [@kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevbonham)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2024, 11:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-and-juila-system-image/121409/7 "2024-10-17T11:55:39Z")
> [@mcreel](#):
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> so I think I need the vscode shell for that, no?
You can use the “connect to external repl” command instead. The “external” REPL can still be from a vs code terminal