On 14 September 2015 at 15:44, Andrei <[email protected]> wrote:
> To continue Michael's answer, I think it would be nice to collect list of > most important features that existing editors for Julia still lack and > think out what can be improved. So far I've seen following features: > > * integrated debugger -- currently work in progress (Gallium.jl), so it > may change soon > * better integration with REPL -- AFAIK, Emacs is the only editor that > has this integration (via ESS mode) so far > * code refactoring > * built-in documentation (in addition to Julia's own help system, I > suppose) > * built-in plots > > This doesn't look like a huge list. If this is what is needed for > non-programmers to work with Julia without pain, I'd say we have a good > chances to get it. > > The list looks sensible. Can you clarify what you mean by code refactoring? How do you think we should do built-in plots when we currently suffer from too much diversity in plotting APIs? Gadfly is popular, but I don't like it and it is immature, so I use PyPlot. Chers, Daniel.
