Oh man, I think there might be a way! Inspired by this because you know Atom is essentially node + chromium, I tried
git clone node-julia and then bizarro% cd node-julia/ bizarro% HOME=~/.atom-shell-gyp node-gyp rebuild --target=0.19.5 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://gh-contractor-zcbenz.s3.amazonaws.com/atom-shell/dist that 0.19.5 value is critical and I ended up just trying the versions at random.... linked node-julia in pwd /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules bizarro% ls -l node-julia lrwxr-xr-x 1 jeffw staff 32 Jan 6 18:10 node-julia -> /Users/jeffw/src/ atom/node-julia and then finally within the javascript REPL in Atom var julia = require('node-julia'); undefined julia.exec('rand',200); Array[200] and then (bonus) julia.eval('using Gadfly') JRef {getHIndex:function}__proto__: JRef julia.eval('plot(rand(10)'); that last part didn't work of course but it didn't crash though and maybe with a little more... A julia engine within Atom. Would that be useful? I'm not sure what you guys are wanting to do, but maybe some collaboration? -Jeff
