# VScode Jupyter Extension vs. IJulia browser

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-jupyter-extension-vs-ijulia-browser/73053>\
**Category:** Jupyter-Notebook\
**Tags:** vscode, ijulia, conda\
**Created:** [December 13, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-jupyter-extension-vs-ijulia-browser/73053 "2021-12-13T22:07:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![donkeysaddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@donkeysaddle](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/donkeysaddle)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-jupyter-extension-vs-ijulia-browser/73053/1 "2021-12-13T22:07:07Z")

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How does the Jupyter-Notebook extension compare to installing Jupyter with Conda and using IJulia?

My preference is to do everything in VSCode, but am wondering if there are any drawbacks (e.g., speed).

Thanks!

DS

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**Author:** ![pfitzseb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pfitzseb/32/45566_2.png) [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 8:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-jupyter-extension-vs-ijulia-browser/73053/2 "2021-12-14T08:32:50Z")

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Pure-VS Code notebooks are less feature complete than IJulia notebooks (e.g. you can’t use `readline`/stdin), but should always out of the box. So I’d recommend using them until you run into a missing feature or bug (please open issues so we can get to feature parity).

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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-jupyter-extension-vs-ijulia-browser/73053/3 "2021-12-14T09:58:10Z")

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Last time I checked one couldn’t adjust the font size of the markdown used in VSCode’s notebooks. That was pretty anoying. Otherwise they worked fine for me.

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**Author:** ![donkeysaddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@donkeysaddle](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/donkeysaddle)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 2:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-jupyter-extension-vs-ijulia-browser/73053/4 "2021-12-15T02:40:32Z")

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Thanks! This is helpful.

So besides specific package issues, and the issues with the font, there are no major differences that one should expect to experience with regards to performance?

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**Author:** ![pfitzseb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pfitzseb/32/45566_2.png) [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-jupyter-extension-vs-ijulia-browser/73053/5 "2021-12-15T10:33:07Z")

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Not that I know of. Just give it a try! 🙂