I for one really miss the shell commands, which disappeared with 0.4.2. Fortunately, cd still works, but that's about it. pwd() inside of Julia is not so bad, but you soon tire of typing readdir() instead of just ;ls. If there are more than a few files in the directory, the output is truncated, too. For new users testing Julia from the documentation this gives a pretty bad impression.
Fortunately, this seems to be a temporary state of affairs, and with the new git library integrated with Julia, the package system will be a lot faster, too. There is an explanation in the thread below. Just don't follow the (my) advice and cut down your PATH. If you meet problems with it, try rearranging the PATH variable or put the julia and atom paths in the "system" and not "user" part of the definition. You need to be logged in to an administrator account to change the system PATH definitions, I believe. You will likely see less issues than I did with the PATH since Juno/ Atom/ Lighttable (or whatever it's really called) is now updated and gives more flexibility. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/julia-users/powershell/julia-users/pHonnw8X3iw/Vcbuj5amAwAJ
