# VS Code extension v0.14.0 beta
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879
**Category:** VS Code
**Created:** [January 27, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879 "2020-01-27T23:07:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/1 "2020-01-27T23:07:31Z")
~~We just finished the third beta release candidate v0.14.0.beta.1 v0.14.0.beta.2 v0.14.0.beta.3 v0.14.0.rc.1 v0.14.0.rc.2 v0.14.0.rc.3 v0.14.0.rc.4 for the Julia extension for VS code here. We’d much appreciate it if we could get some testers to try it out and give feedback on bugs before we release it to the marketplace.~~
EDIT: We have a new way of distributing pre-release versions of the extension, see [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-vs-code-extension-pre-release/35192). We are using this new way of distributing pre-release versions for the 0.14 series, so please us the new insider build if you want to help with the testing of the extension.
Here is the list of things we’ve updated for this release:
- Async indexing of packages. While indexing still takes a while, it now no longer blocks the rest of the functionality of the extension from working until it is finished. There is a visual indication in the status bar while packages are indexed.
- Improved linting: call number of args check, `=` used in `if` conditional, check for pirates, unused free parameter (e.g. `where T`) check, unhandled `include` hint, module name clashes.
- New Code Actions: explicit-reexport, automatically import all package names explicitly labelled within code (i.e. `CSTParser.parse(..) -> parse(..)`), expand short form functions, add default constructors to `struct` declarations.
- Major fixes: fixed handling of unicode characters, prettier Markdown representation of hover documentation, options to disable various linting/DocumentFormat features.
- Improved macro handling (JuMP, Turing).
- A large number of bug fixes and robustness improvements.
- NEW: Support for Julia 1.4.
If you can, please opt into the crash reporting of the extension! It makes finding and fixing bugs a lot easier for us.
To try the release candidate ~~download the VSIX file from and install using the `Extensions: Install from VSIX…` command~~ follow the instructions [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-vs-code-extension-pre-release/35192).
I’ll keep adding messages to this thread as we release more betas and release candidates.
Thanks,
David and Zac
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/2 "2020-01-28T02:47:28Z")
Is this expected to work with Julia 1.3.1? The Language Server keeps crashing…
Otherwise it looks great.
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/3 "2020-01-28T03:28:24Z")
Yes, it should work on 1.3.1! I got the crash report, but unfortunately there was an error in the crash reporting that prevents it from sending something useful ☹ So I’ll have to create a new beta, and then hopefully the same error will happen again, and when you send that new crash report, hopefully we’ll get it…
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/4 "2020-01-28T03:38:38Z")
Alright, here is beta 2, please use that, because otherwise we won’t get useful crash reports!
Download at [https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/releases/tag/v0.14.0-beta.2](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/releases/tag/v0.14.0-beta.2)
Thanks @PetrKryslUCSD for catching this so early!
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 4:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/5 "2020-01-28T04:22:26Z")
Installed beta 2. So far no crashes to report.
And, thank you David and Zac very much for your efforts to provide the community with a decent editor!
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### Author:  [@Nosferican](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nosferican)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 4:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/6 "2020-01-28T04:54:35Z")
Is v0.14.0-beta.2 suppose to work with Julia v1.4.0-rc1 or not yet?
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 5:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/7 "2020-01-28T05:13:55Z")
I think @ZacLN mentioned that we need to change some more things for 1.4 because of the `a[begin]` stuff. Not clear to me whether that makes it entirely unusable on 1.4, or whether it is just a few scenarios where things won’t work.
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### Author:  [@rapus95](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rapus95)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/8 "2020-01-28T06:37:40Z")
@davidanthoff I guess it’d be best if you also replace the link in the announcement. (Not all people will continue reading BEFORE clicking on download 😃 )
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### Author:  [@ianfiske](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ianfiske)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/9 "2020-01-29T21:50:47Z")
Just have to say, wow. I decided to give VS Code another try with this beta release. It’s working very smoothly and is a really nice experience so far. Thanks for your hard work!
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### Author:  [@mthelm85](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mthelm85)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/10 "2020-01-30T01:14:38Z")
VS Code with the Julia extension is my daily driver so I’ll download and let you know if I have any issues : ) Thanks so much for all the hard work!!! 👍
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/11 "2020-01-30T18:36:20Z")
I just released beta 3, please update to that version and keep those crash and bug reports coming: [https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/releases/tag/v0.14.0-beta.3](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/releases/tag/v0.14.0-beta.3) .
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### Author:  [@PGS62](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PGS62)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/12 "2020-02-07T17:00:57Z")
I’ve been using the VS code extension 0.14.0-beta3 for 4 or 5 days, and it’s been running very well. But today I’m seeing a possible bug.
I have a short script that returns a Dictionary. Running it from the REPL works fine - the Dictionary is displayed in the REPL. But running it by hitting F5 whilst the script is the active tab does not work, things seems to be failing at the point where the Dictionary is being displayed in the REPL. The call stack mentions “vscodeserver” a fair amount…
Running from the REPL:
```julia
julia> include("XVA/src/precompile.jl")
Executing precompile file
OrderedCollections.OrderedDict{String,Any} with 8 entries:
"Trades" => OrderedCollections.OrderedDict{Any,Any}("TradeID"=>["T000001", "T000002", "T000003", "T000004", "T000005"],"
```
Running by hitting F5:
```julia
Executing precompile file
OrderedCollections.OrderedDict{String,Any} with 8 entries:ERROR: MethodError: no method matching size(::WeakRefStrings.StringArray{String,1})
The applicable method may be too new: running in world age 26877, while current world is 27662.
Closest candidates are:
size(::WeakRefStrings.StringArray) at C:\Users\Philip\.julia\packages\WeakRefStrings\lqf5B\src\WeakRefStrings.jl:193 (method too new to be called from this world context.)
size(::AbstractArray{T,N}, ::Any) where {T, N} at abstractarray.jl:38
size(::BitArray{1}) at bitarray.jl:77
...
Stacktrace:
[1] length at .\abstractarray.jl:206 [inlined]
[2] isempty(::WeakRefStrings.StringArray{String,1}) at .\abstractarray.jl:917
[3] typeinfo_prefix(::IOContext{Base.GenericIOBuffer{Array{UInt8,1}}}, ::WeakRefStrings.StringArray{String,1}) at .\arrayshow.jl:480
[4] show_vector(::IOContext{Base.GenericIOBuffer{Array{UInt8,1}}}, ::WeakRefStrings.StringArray{String,1}, ::Char, ::Char) at .\arrayshow.jl:432 (repeats 2 times)
[5] show(::IOContext{Base.GenericIOBuffer{Array{UInt8,1}}}, ::WeakRefStrings.StringArray{String,1}) at .\arrayshow.jl:418
[6] show(::IOContext{Base.GenericIOBuffer{Array{UInt8,1}}}, ::Pair{String,WeakRefStrings.StringArray{String,1}}) at .\show.jl:604
[7] show(::IOContext{Base.GenericIOBuffer{Array{UInt8,1}}}, ::OrderedCollections.OrderedDict{Any,Any}) at .\dict.jl:38
[8] #sprint#339(::IOContext{REPL.Terminals.TTYTerminal}, ::Int64, ::typeof(sprint), ::Function, ::OrderedCollections.OrderedDict{Any,Any}) at .\strings\io.jl:103
[9] (::Base.var"#kw##sprint")(::NamedTuple{(:context, :sizehint),Tuple{IOContext{REPL.Terminals.TTYTerminal},Int64}}, ::typeof(sprint), ::Function, ::OrderedCollections.OrderedDict{Any,Any}) at .\none:0
[10] show(::IOContext{REPL.Terminals.TTYTerminal}, ::MIME{Symbol("text/plain")}, ::OrderedCollections.OrderedDict{String,Any}) at .\show.jl:101
[11] display(::REPL.REPLDisplay, ::MIME{Symbol("text/plain")}, ::Any) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.3\REPL\src\REPL.jl:132
[12] display(::REPL.REPLDisplay, ::Any) at D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.3\REPL\src\REPL.jl:136
[13] display(::Any) at .\multimedia.jl:323
[14] (::Main._vscodeserver.var"#9#12"{String,Int64,Int64,String})() at c:\Users\Philip\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-0.14.0-beta.3\scripts\terminalserver\terminalserver.jl:160
[15] withpath(::Main._vscodeserver.var"#9#12"{String,Int64,Int64,String}, ::String) at c:\Users\Philip\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-0.14.0-beta.3\scripts\terminalserver\repl.jl:62
[16] (::Main._vscodeserver.var"#8#11"{String,Int64,Int64,String})() at c:\Users\Philip\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-0.14.0-beta.3\scripts\terminalserver\terminalserver.jl:156
[17] hideprompt(::Main._vscodeserver.var"#8#11"{String,Int64,Int64,String}) at c:\Users\Philip\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-0.14.0-beta.3\scripts\terminalserver\repl.jl:28
[18] macro expansion at c:\Users\Philip\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-0.14.0-beta.3\scripts\terminalserver\terminalserver.jl:152 [inlined]
[19] (::Main._vscodeserver.var"#7#10")() at .\task.jl:333
julia>
```
```julia
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.3.1
Commit 2d5741174c (2019-12-30 21:36 UTC)
Platform Info:
OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz
WORD_SIZE: 64
LIBM: libopenlibm
LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 8
JULIA_EDITOR = "C:\Users\Philip\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe"
```
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/13 "2020-02-07T17:09:14Z")
I’m pretty sure this is fixed by [Fix a world age bug in the REPL display code by davidanthoff · Pull Request #974 · julia-vscode/julia-vscode · GitHub](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/pull/974). If this still appears after we publish a new beta, please open an issue!
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/14 "2020-02-11T17:49:32Z")
We have a first release candidate [here](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/releases/tag/v0.14.0-rc.1). Please install and report back any bugs!
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/15 "2020-02-11T20:31:09Z")
The new alpha fixed the Makie display issue for me on shift / alt + enter 🙂
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### Author:  [@IljaK91](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/IljaK91)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 8:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/16 "2020-02-12T08:22:19Z")
For some reason this option (which is new, I think), does not work:
I unticked it, because of the known wrong behaviour (for local packages). However, it still shows me missing references, so I have to turn off the Linter entirely.
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/17 "2020-02-12T15:40:44Z")
Can you open an issue?
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/18 "2020-02-17T18:18:33Z")
We have a new release candidate: [Release v0.14.0-rc.2 · julia-vscode/julia-vscode · GitHub](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/releases/tag/v0.14.0-rc.2)
Please download and test and report any bugs! We hope to release a final version soon!
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### Author:  [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/19 "2020-02-22T23:00:59Z")
We have a third release candidate finished, available at [Release v0.14.0-rc.3 · julia-vscode/julia-vscode · GitHub](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/releases/tag/v0.14.0-rc.3).
We made some pretty fundamental changes in some low level routines that hopefully will fix some longstanding bugs. BUT, that means the changes relative to the previous release candidate are pretty substantial…
So, PLEASE download, install and test this release candidate! We need good coverage for this one to make sure the changes we made didn’t introduce any regressions.
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-extension-v0-14-0-beta/33879/20 "2020-02-22T23:54:34Z")
I use PlotlyJS to produce plots updated from within running code ([FinEtoolsFlexBeams.jl/fast\_top\_examples.jl at 5c7022bd3fe7a80abed749772f94a482e4e3946b · PetrKryslUCSD/FinEtoolsFlexBeams.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/PetrKryslUCSD/FinEtoolsFlexBeams.jl/blob/5c7022bd3fe7a80abed749772f94a482e4e3946b/examples/nonlin_transient/fast_top_examples.jl#L350)). The plot opens within Code, the static graphic is produced, but the dynamic drawings never show up.
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