I'm not sure I'd want to do any serious coding in an editor that doesn't have the most basic support for the language I'm using, but to each their own I guess.

I'm not sure I'd want to do any serious coding in an editor that doesn't have the most basic support for the language I'm using, but to each their own I guess. For new users, if they're not used to writing unicode characters and don't have an editor with nice support, then they don't have to write them. The julia community has a pretty strong convention of giving both unicode and ascii versions of almost all functions. Some packages don't have this convention, but I'm not aware of any big important ones that don't follow it.