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mini ASK HN: would there be any interest in supporting Julia in Visual Studio? (as a free/oss plugin).

i lead the Python Tools for Visual Studio project at msft and would be curious if there is interest.

as a side note, if you do you use Python & require Python/C++ debugging, PTVS now supports it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJaKQ94lBY#t=10

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Are you using the IPython protocol for communication with python? If so, extending it to julia should be fairly straight forward.

we are for the integrated IPython REPL. but my question was more in terms of intellisense, debugging, profiling, mixed julia/C++ debugging, etc. ie, a fully integrated experience in VS.

The fully integrated experience you mention would do a lot for the Julia community in terms of gaining users tied to the GUI elements of MATLAB and VS for other languages. Integrated debugging and inspection in particular is a long-requested feature that has yet to see much attention.

Integrating with Pkg as Julia Studio does would be another important feature, as well as providing some sort of integrated plotting/graphics widget (a backend canvas along with plot navigation and image export, ideally supporting more than one of Julia's plotting backends).

I would certainly contribute to an alpha- or beta-testing effort :)

That would be fantastic, and I'd love to see that.

That would be actually quite awesome.

I think that would significantly increase the odds that my company moves from MATLAB (as one of the big arguments against is the lack of a good IDE), so yes, I would be incredibly interested in Julia support.

That would be amazing!

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