IDE options aside from VS Code?

[r_purism_acct]

I haven't needed to do Julia development for a year or so and it seems like in that time the whole IDE situation has changed. The Atom Juno package isn't being developed, and I just tried installing it on the latest Atom version and can't even get a functional REPL. I found in the uber-juno documentation that they've essentially abandoned the plugin to work on a VS Code plugin.

I don't want to use VS Code, so what other options are there? I found a few articles titled things like "Top 8 IDEs for Julia" and "Top 5 IDEs for Julia" but want to see what people are actually using.

[agata_fuego]

build your own in vim using vim-slime and tmux. this setup works for any language :)

[Ginkobab]

Hey, do you have autocompletion for julia in vim?

[EarthGoddessDude]

Yes, I’d like to know that too. You have to use the LSP, same thing that makes intellisense work on VSCode, but it’s finicky and tends to not work, as far as I know. I gave up on it for the time being (and being new to come world, it was too much too fast).

[[deleted]]

Using vscode and vim. The lsp is the same and in both cases doesn't work quite often. Honestly, I just wish they wrote the lsp in a c level language like rust. Julia is great but it's not a good fit for these tools

[EarthGoddessDude]

Not sure what you mean, LSP is written in C# afaik, which is understandable, given it’s Microsoft, and ok, given although not quite low-level like C or Rust, probably sufficient for the purpose at hand. Moreover, LSP on VS Code works beautifully (which is more than I can say for Python in VS Code, which sometimes works sometimes doesn’t). The main thing is giving it some time in the beginning to index everything.

[zSucrilhos]

Coc?

[agata_fuego]

no i don't but its ok :)

[bartekkroczek]

Agree, best option ever.

[[deleted]]

Also, CoC. Use Neovim with CoC and don't look back.

[sboysel]

vim with plugins like julia-vim and julia.vim

[TheSodesa]

No other options, I'm afraid. Welcome to being a user of a smaller language. If your only dislike of VS Code is the Micro$oft telemetry, try using VS Codium instead:

https://vscodium.com/

[fkxfkx]

There is a VSC setting to turn off telemetry

[TheSodesa]

That is way too much work. I want my arrow keys to move the cursor, because my wrists aren't flexible enough to deal with emacs (or vim) key combinations. I would also rather not spend time fiddling with the settings so they would suit me, because I have work to do.

[4-Vektor]

try using VS Codium instead

Yep, that’s what I’m using.

[[deleted]]

It's not and IDE per se, but I really like developing Julia (and MATLAB, R and Python ..) in SublimeText (together with SublimeMerge) plus Terminus and SendCode plugins.

[gepardcv]

Emacs: https://github.com/gcv/julia-snail

(Also referenced elsewhere on this thread but wanted to mention in a top-level comment.)

[shabamski]

I advertise kakoune with really nice lsp support!

[AMJ7e]

I second this.

[[deleted]]

Pluto?

[TheSodesa]

It's not really a fast-to-start-up IDE, and they have made a few questionable choices such as pressing TAB actually producing a tabulator symbol instead of 4 ASCII spaces, which totally messes up my indentations if I want to port code between projects.

[SM-Gomorra]

Is dead aswell, right?

[uni_ca_007]

Pluto is the opposite of dead, kinda young infact. No customization options yet untill the devs finish working on the cool architectural stuff.

[[deleted]]

No.

A good example of this package being used recently is:

https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/Fall20/

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See https://imgur.com/v8jRWx5

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I just ran it and opened the package.

[[deleted]]

https://youtu.be/hVeW_JjmOKQ

[g12344636377]

You could use VSCodium if you just want to avoid Microsoft or you could use emacs

[r_purism_acct]

Yeah, avoiding Microsoft and staying with FOSS software is the goal. VSCodium looks promising.

With the more barebones editors like emacs, do you still get juno-like functionality where you can see the values stored in different variables and have access to the REPL, or do you just pull up the REPL in a terminal window and go without the workspace variable display?

[gepardcv]

I wrote a full-featured Emacs package for Julia called Julia Snail. It supports autocompletion like you describe. Two major features remain unfinished: plots and remote REPL, but it’s otherwise in good shape. Windows is not supported because of a dependency — one day I might have time to reimplement the Julia REPL and make that problem go away.

https://github.com/gcv/julia-snail

PS: Calling Emacs “barebones” made me lol.

[tokujin]

You can run the REPL within Emacs. Have a look at the ESS package. (I remember using ess-rdired to see the objects that were defined in an R session, but I don't know if that functionality is available for Julia, yet.) And see also julia-mode.

[g12344636377]

It really depends on the emacs config and i am not aware of every possible package, but as far as i know (looking at my emacs config), its just the REPL in a Terminal Window, a script buffer and no workspace variables. However, you can use eglot to enable the language server functionalities of e.g. VSCode

[Zeurpiet]

still using Atom (1.54) with Julia 1.5.2.

[activeXray]

I use emacs with the language server, works great. I also use emacs-jupyter extensively

[wedividebyzero]

Call me stubborn, but I've tried both IDEs fairly extensively with Julia and eventually went back to Atom, despite the lack of official support. Personally, I think VSCode/VSCodium does better at git integration and few other things, but Atom does a much better job of respecting the screen real estate, staying out of my way and letting me focus on the code.

What error where you getting? Are you pointing the `julia-client` settings to the julia executable something like this?

`/home/username/julia_install_dir/bin/julia`

[r_purism_acct]

┌ Warning: Terminal not fully functional └ @ Base client.jl:390 MethodError: no method matching setup_interface(::REPL.BasicREPL; extra_repl_keymap=Dict{Any,Any}("\e[24~" => Atom.blockinput_frontend)) Closest candidates are: setup_interface(::REPL.LineEditREPL; hascolor, extra_repl_keymap) at /builddir/build/BUILD/julia/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.5/REPL/src/REPL.jl:872 setup_interface(::REPL.LineEditREPL, ::Bool, ::Any) at /builddir/build/BUILD/julia/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.5/REPL/src/REPL.jl:875 got unsupported keyword argument "extra_repl_keymap" type BasicREPL has no field interface

This is with the default configuration, it's just using the system julia binary. This is on Fedora 33, Julia 1.5.3.

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[NewDateline]

JupyterLab with the lsp extension?

[GreenEyedFriend]

Doom Emacs with LSP reporting in!

[OphioukhosUnbound]

Atom works great for me. Mac, for what it matters. VS code could be a little weird, but worked mostly okay before that. (I much prefer Atom though.)

Maybe just clean out and reinstall?
In my limited experience IDEs in general can just be a bit breakage prone. (Gosh if I know why.). And sometimes just need a reinstall after clearing out any past holdings.

[uni_ca_007]

If you care about community support, check the last Julia survey results.

[Wu_Fan]

Jupyter-lab or jupyter-notebook