That's very cool. You should definitely package this up if you can. The JS-on-top approach might actually make it easier to package up a Julia app, at least in the short term. (Also, if you don't want to call julia.eval every time, it should be easy to hook up the Julia instance to Juno and use it as a repl).
The Blink.jl model turns out to work quite well for us – since it's basically a thin layer over a Julia server + browser window, it should be easy to serve Blink.jl apps both locally and over the internet, which will open up some interesting possibilities. It does hurt ease-of-use a little though, so I'd be happy to see alternative approaches crop up. On 7 January 2015 at 00:31, Jeff Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
