# What if there was julia repl on discourse itself?

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**Created:** [February 14, 2022, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-if-there-was-julia-repl-on-discourse-itself/76427 "2022-02-14T11:43:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![yewalenikhil65](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yewalenikhil65/32/26873_2.png) [@yewalenikhil65](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yewalenikhil65)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 11:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-if-there-was-julia-repl-on-discourse-itself/76427/1 "2022-02-14T11:43:06Z")

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What if there was an Online Julia Repl on discourse itself, so that you could try out suggestions super quick by copy pasting what others are saying?  
Sorry if i sound too lazy 😅

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**Author:** ![tbeason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tbeason/32/15898_2.png) [@tbeason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tbeason)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-if-there-was-julia-repl-on-discourse-itself/76427/2 "2022-02-14T13:42:26Z")

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There are sites like [replit](https://replit.com/) but I do not know how much Julia support exists there.

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**Author:** ![StevenWhitaker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevenwhitaker/32/9749_2.png) [@StevenWhitaker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StevenWhitaker)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 2:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-if-there-was-julia-repl-on-discourse-itself/76427/3 "2022-02-14T14:04:45Z")

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Interesting idea. I think the utility of this depends on how one usually starts Julia. For example, all I have to do is `Ctrl-Alt-t` `jl<Enter>` and I’m ready to go. Though if there are specific packages that need to be added then I also `cd` into a `tmp/` directory and `pkg> activate .`, so maybe in those cases a built-in REPL could be more convenient.

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**Author:** ![yewalenikhil65](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yewalenikhil65/32/26873_2.png) [@yewalenikhil65](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yewalenikhil65)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-if-there-was-julia-repl-on-discourse-itself/76427/4 "2022-02-14T14:06:33Z")

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Recently i have developed habit of using discourse on phone, and reading long conversations with suggestions on code snippets. It would be cool to test it there and there itself !

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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-if-there-was-julia-repl-on-discourse-itself/76427/5 "2022-02-14T14:17:03Z")

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Who’s going to pay for the compute to enable dozens (?) of people a day to do `using Plots; plot(some_data)`, or even worse `activate --temp; add DifferentialEquations; ...some calculation...`?

A better solution for you is likely:

> [@Using Julia on Android with UserLAnd](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-julia-on-android-with-userland/58498/13):
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> Does this thread suggest Julia is available on the newer Samsung cellphones?

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**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-if-there-was-julia-repl-on-discourse-itself/76427/6 "2022-02-14T14:18:30Z")

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Presumably this would require a JS/wasm Julia interpreter.

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**Author:** ![yewalenikhil65](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yewalenikhil65/32/26873_2.png) [@yewalenikhil65](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yewalenikhil65)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-if-there-was-julia-repl-on-discourse-itself/76427/7 "2022-02-14T14:21:20Z")

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Wow, I did not knew about this tool UserLand. Thanks for letting me know !