Thanks for the feedback, it's always good to hear what teething problems people have. Many of these things are one the roadmap and over the next couple months we'll be aimed at making the first-time Juno experience really good.
In particular: 1) Don't worry about the LT update. In fact, I highly recommend trying out the Juno/Atom bundles instead; that's where our future work will be happening, and we'll put bundles up officially on the website soon. 2) You can get a more recent Julia by downloading the bundle from the website, *or* by downloading Julia separately and pointing Juno to it. 3) The use of commands is partly just the way that it works in LT/Atom. It's pretty powerful in many ways, although to make things easier for people getting started we will be sorting out menus / toolbars as well. (In Atom this is under Packages->Julia) 4) We want to support different workflows as well as we can. The Atom work includes a repl which is going to get a lot nicer over the next couple weeks. If there are any other obvious missing features, you're welcome to mention them. On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 at 05:23 David Blake <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, some help please. > > A while back I downloaded and installed Julia Studio and wrote 10-20 > little programs in it. I found it quite good but now it's been > discontinued of course. > > So I'm looking at Juno, but man I find it hard to use. I've read a bit on > here about it, but I still feel like I have no idea what I'm doing. I'd > very much appreciate some help with this: > > These are pretty basic questions, so please don't flame me. I'm on > Windows 10, 64 bit. > > 1) Every time I start Juno, it tells me a new binary version of LightTable > (LT) is available and do I want to download it. It doesn't sort of update > automatically, just opens a link to the download site for LT. So then I'm > unclear as to what to do, I can download the LT binary but then what? I > have Juno, which is on top of LT, how to upgrade the underlying LT > version? Or should I just not worry about it? > > 2) Also, how would I upgrade the underlying Julia language to the latest > version please? In another site, I saw how to use versioninfo, it shows > 3.10. > > 3) There seem to be very few commands available via the menu, but lots and > lots via Ctrl-space. I find this quite different to most IDEs. Is this > just the way LT works? And just a matter of getting used to it? If so, I'm > OK with that. > > 4) The workflow pattern I normally like to use with other languages like > Python is to write my code in scripts and then run from a console, > preferably all within an IDE. So I use Spyder for Python and find it very > good. I'd like to use Juno the same way. As opposed to say having a text > editor open to code in, and a separate console window to run files from > etc. Do people use Juno like this? i.e. like a standalone thing? > > Any help appreciated. > >
