Julians seem to keep their .jl files under ~/.julia/dev. Why is this? Is this location used somehow by “import”, “using”, or “include”? In C, I’m used to keeping source files under ~/src, then copying executables into ~/bin and libraries into ~/lib. Then I can use the executables and libraries from…

In short, you can put your Julia source files wherever you want. ~/.julia/dev just happens to be a common default. If you like to access them from ~/src, you could always do ln -s ~/.julia/dev ~/src/juliapkgs on a *nix system. As others have explained, Pkg.develop and other tools such as PkgTempla…

Where to store .jl files

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Where to store .jl files

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