Not sure what you mean by julia sandbox, but there 
is https://www.juliabox.org/ if you want to try out julia without having to 
install on your machine. 

On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 11:23:29 AM UTC-5, Fengyang Wang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I learned Julia recently, and I must say it has been incredible for 
> scientific work. I am in love with the clean, modern syntax. Props to the 
> developers for their tireless efforts to improve this language even further!
>
> Historically, Lua and Javascript have been the most common choices for 
> scripting languages in larger projects... Lua because it is so easy to 
> integrate with C(++), and Javascript primarily because it is so easy to 
> integrate with Java. I would like Julia to fill this role for one of my 
> current projects, but I have identified some hurdles.
>
>    1. For now, security is not important because scripts are assumed to 
>    be trusted. However, a plan for scripts to eventually be downloaded from 
>    the Internet is in the works. I could not find a Julia sandbox, however. 
>    Does such a sandbox exist?
>    2. My customers may not necessarily be computer-literate, and I can't 
>    expect them to install Julia. Also, due to the rapid pace of Julia 
>    development, it may be advantageous to install a portable Julia entirely 
>    for this project only. My project currently targets Windows, Linux, and 
> Mac 
>    OSX. Is there a portable way to install a portable Julia, or will I have 
> to 
>    create separate installation code for each OS?
>    3. My current understanding is that I should write the public API in 
>    Julia, and use ccall internally to call back into my project. Is this the 
>    correct method?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>

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