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You can ;-) The secret sauce in Julia is to use Revise.jl package. Is makes your life so much better. It observes source code changes while you are at the REPL.
by socialdemocrat 7y ago
You can ;-) The secret sauce in Julia is to use Revise.jl package. Is makes your life so much better. It observes source code changes while you are at the REPL. No need to restart everything.
- ashton314 7y ago+1 for this package. Total game changer.
- jjoonathan 7y agoHow reliable is Revise.jl compared to ipython autoreload? My experience with ipython autoreload is... very poor, even though some people swear by it, so I have trust issues with this type of thing.
- montalbano 7y agoI use it extensively. In my experience it is very reliable. Onle once or twice in two years of using it has something strange happened with JIT compilation of functions. All I had to do to fix was restart the Julia REPL and load things in again.
- oxinabox 7y agoOne downside is Revise v2 actually itself has a fairly high startup cost. Best alternative is to pin it to Revise v1. I personsally don't mind the startup too much. But I do get where people are coming from