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What does a Julia environment look like, in practice? Is it anything like the Matlab environment, where not online is there a console and integrated editor and

What does a Julia environment look like, in practice? Is it anything like the Matlab environment, where not online is there a console and integrated editor and super easy to use debugging/performance measurement, but also all the variables are visible in the GUI? If so, I'd consider switching (as Matlab does that better than vanilla numpy). Julia is pretty great in theory. It is still a very new language for my uses, which means the documentation and community are orders of magnitude smaller than Matlab or Numpy/python.

ForHackernews 5y ago
Yes(-ish). You can use Julia in a Jupyter (the Ju- is Julia) notebook, just like Python. This is a pretty user-friendly experience for students, academics and data scientists. https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-best-use-julia-with-jupyter-82678a482677 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-best-use-julia-with-ju...
- Robotbeat 5y ago
  Jupyter notebook is a lot like Mathematica. I’m wondering if visibility to variables is similar to Matlab? With Matlab, I have a list of all the variables in a nice little box, with summary of their contents (byte size, dimensions, type, contents if it’s small enough to be displayed, etc), and to see the full contents, I just double click on it. Looks like Jupyter Lab and Atom/Juno is what I’m looking for. Still not as well-integrated as Matlab is. I suppose that’s my attraction to Matlab. There’s not a bunch of different programs/environments to juggle to get a good, consistent experience for rapidly developing scientific code (for simulation, modeling, etc). All still possible.
SnooSuxx 5y ago
When I used Julia a few years ago the main environment was Juno https://junolab.org/ https://junolab.org/ But it looks like they're switching to VSCode as a Julia IDE. Which should give you what you need, you just have to spend some time setting it all up.

ForHackernews 5y ago

Yes(-ish). You can use Julia in a Jupyter (the Ju- is Julia) notebook, just like Python. This is a pretty user-friendly experience for students, academics and data scientists. https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-best-use-julia-with-jupyter-82678a482677 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-best-use-julia-with-ju...

Robotbeat 5y ago
Jupyter notebook is a lot like Mathematica. I’m wondering if visibility to variables is similar to Matlab? With Matlab, I have a list of all the variables in a nice little box, with summary of their contents (byte size, dimensions, type, contents if it’s small enough to be displayed, etc), and to see the full contents, I just double click on it. Looks like Jupyter Lab and Atom/Juno is what I’m looking for. Still not as well-integrated as Matlab is. I suppose that’s my attraction to Matlab. There’s not a bunch of different programs/environments to juggle to get a good, consistent experience for rapidly developing scientific code (for simulation, modeling, etc). All still possible.

SnooSuxx 5y ago

When I used Julia a few years ago the main environment was Juno https://junolab.org/ https://junolab.org/ But it looks like they're switching to VSCode as a Julia IDE. Which should give you what you need, you just have to spend some time setting it all up.