Spyder: Support running Julia files (.jl), using IJulia

[spyder-bot]

_From [email protected] on 2014-09-19T09:13:18Z_

It would be nice if simple Julia support could be integrated in Spyder.

As far as I know it would be sufficient to integrate IJulia and to enable running Julia programs in the IJulia console.

See also: https://bitbucket.org/spyder-ide/spyderlib/pull-request/71/julia-console-for-spyder/diff

_Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=1976_

[jingpengw]

I really like the spyder IDE especially the Variable Explorer. It make me productive. I am considering migrating to Julia, which lacks a simple powerful IDE. Anyone have a technical clue to implement julia support of Spyder?

[goanpeca]

In the current state is not straightforward, but the idea would be to implement additional language possibilities via plugins, so a hypothetical spyplugin.julia could add:

1. Code completion/introspection
2. An interface to the variable explorer
3. an iJulia console

However this framework would most likely come (if it does) with spyder 4.0 ...

[peterwittek]

Is there any progress with this? It would be awesome to use Spyder for coding in Julia.

[goanpeca]

@peterwittek there is progress but no estimate for this yet. The editor decoupling work to make it extensible via plugins es underway (@rlaverde) and from there we need to expose the needed api of the involved plugins variable explorer and console.

[ccordoba12]

@peterwittek, so the code to do this will come in Spyder 4, to be released by the end of 2017

[RoyiAvital]

Having a combination of Spyder + Julia would be amazing.

Any chance making Julia 1st Class Citizen in Spyder and not only a Plug In?

Thank You.

[ccordoba12]

@RoyiAvital, the big problem is none of the core devs uses Julia, so maintenance for it will have to come from the community.

However, we'll start the work for that plugin and make sure the infrastructure in the Spyder side supports Julia the best that we can.