Juno for Pulsar

[stefaniecg]

I have been unsuccessful on installing Juno [1] for Pulsar.
Does anyone know if this is somehow possible?
i really do not want to use Visual Studio Code.

Thank you for the help you can provide.

Ref.
[1] https://junolab.org

[savetheclocktower]

I'm not sure what Juno is. Is this a specific package you were trying to install?

EDIT: I thought you might've meant that. julia-client fails to build, but I think it might be as simple as updating a dependency. Let me take a look.

[stefaniecg]

sorry for not putting a raference to what i was talking about, please see the post, i've updated it

[savetheclocktower]

I don't have a great answer for you here, but I want to make sure it's actionable. I played around with uber-juno and the things it installs and I managed to get past all of the errors; it's possible you'd be able to do the same.

First, on julia-client: the error I get during installation can be fixed by updating the node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch package, but the whole point is that it won't install in the first place, so you'd have to

• Check it out from GitHub into a directory with git clone [email protected]:JunoLab/atom-julia-client.git
• cd atom-julia-client
• Update the package.json to change node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch from 0.9.0 to ^0.10.0
• npm install (should complete successfully; if npm isn't found, try ppm install)
• ppm link .
• npx electron-rebuild -v 12.2.3 (it might have to install electron-rebuild; that's fine — or, if npx isn't found, try ppm rebuild instead)

These instructions worked for me with npm/npx, but this presumes you have Node installed locally. The ppm versions of those commands may or may not work; I haven't tried. If this part fails, let me know.

The other packages installed by uber-juno install successfully, but some of them throw errors on launch. Luckily, there are updated versions of these dependencies on GitHub, so you should uninstall uber-juno and ink (if they're already installed) and instead do

ppm install [email protected]:JunoLab/atom-ink.git
ppm install [email protected]:JunoLab/uber-juno.git

and those should be sorted.

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When I did these things, I wound up with what seems like a functional Julia environment, but I'm no expert. The REPL seems to work, as does autocompletion. I don't love packages that install a toolbar (as though you're only going to be using Pulsar for Julia and not for other things as well!) but I bet that can be disabled without much ill effect.

@mjrodgers has been working on a new Julia language grammar (for updated syntax highlighting) and I'm curious whether he's got suggestions about a good Julia workflow inside of Pulsar. @stefaniecg, tell us what features you're looking for out of a Julia IDE and we may be able to figure out alternative packages that would do the same things.

[mjrodgers]

I need to update some things with my tree sitter package, they made a big update to the parser so I want to incorporate those changes.

But as far as getting Juno to work, I had to make my own version of atom-julia-client that basically made the changes mentioned above.
link to my package

I'm able to use a lot of the features including the REPL and the debugger even. But I would avoid using the automatic code formatting, it uses a very very old version of JuliaFormatter.jl that will not properly respect your configuration file. It's impossible to update this dependency unfortunately without major changes to the Juno codebase.

[savetheclocktower]

Aha! @stefaniecg, you can give this this version a shot via…

ppm install mjrodgers/atom-julia-client

…instead of following the instructions above from my bulleted list.

[mjrodgers]

Yes! Although the advice about installing uber-juno and ink from the github links still stands.