# VS Code REPL very slow startup

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-repl-very-slow-startup/90202
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** question, vscode, potential-bug
**Created:** [November 13, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-repl-very-slow-startup/90202 "2022-11-13T18:48:33Z")
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### Author: ![alex180500](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/alex180500/32/44358_2.png) [@alex180500](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alex180500)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-repl-very-slow-startup/90202/11 "2022-11-30T21:03:07Z")

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I have posted in the correct section:

> [@Cannot do anything unless Language Server is started in VS Code](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-do-anything-unless-language-server-is-started-in-vs-code/91067):
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> I’m new to Julia, already made a github issue and another post [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vs-code-repl-very-slow-startup/90202). Maybe this is the place. Whenever I open VS Code the language server start is painfully slow (takes ~1min without packages, ~3min with some packages) and seems to redownload cache on the symbol server every time. But the problem is the fact that unless the language server has started I’m unable to: send anything to repl (with ctrl+enter or shift+enter), it opens the REPL but nothing is sent use latex characters (\alpha + t…

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