I think a good IDE should have: - A proper console and a good way to send single line and block of codes to it (e.g. matlab's code section) - A decent text editor - Integrated plots - Proper window management (docking, etc) so you don't have windows everywhere
All this meet two others broad and important goals, namely having a good plotting solution and being able to make GUI applications in Julia. For these reasons I feel like something like Julietta was the way to go.
