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communities drive innovation.
+# Discussion
+
+## Questions and answers
+
+- Q: As someone who uses Julia, Emacs and Julia *in* Emacs, I feel
+ like Julia's integration with Emacs is lacking.  I haven't found
+ any way to debug Julia code that works as well as edebug for elisp,
+ SLY/SLIME for common lisp, or gdb for many other languages (with gud
+ or realgud).  Both Debugger.jl and Infiltrator.jl are difficult to
+ use interactively. Do you have any suggestions for interactive
+ debugging of Julia code in Emacs? (Adding to my question: Do other
+ editors do a better job of interactive Julia debugging?)
+ - A: GB: Debbuger.jl and Infiltrator.jl are the main debugging
+ tools available in Julia at the moment. Both of them are not
+ great (yet) and can use some work. Debugger is going to see
+ major performance improvements in future releases thanks to work
+ in the core language. Unfortunately, I don't see anything
+ better for interactive debugging that is avilable now or in the
+ near future. Most of the julia community is clustered around VS
+ code, but the situation is not better
+- Q: Can you call out something that Julia has that Emacs does not, and
+ which could benefit Emacs?
+ - A: GB: The Julia community is active and more tightly knit than
+ other communities (e.g., the Python one), JuliaCon is an
+ in-person event that brings people together. Emacs is also doing
+ great in this.
+- Q: Is there a way to use lisp syntax with Julia, like hy for python
+ or lisp flavoured erlang?
+ - A: Julia used to have a femtolisp interpreter built-into its
+ REPL.
+ - A: GB: I am not aware, but it might be possible to write a
+ package to do that.
+- Q: Have you tried the Julia Snail package for Emacs?  It tries to be
+ like SLY/SLIME for Common Lisp.
+ - A: GB: Yes, but I settled on julia-repl (with vterm). I didn't
+ test julia-snail too much because I found julia-repl easier to
+ setup and use the way I wished.
+- Q: Along the same lines as question 1 \-- is there a data inspector
+ for a Julia REPL available that you can use in Emacs?
+ - A: good mode, other good tooling; room for improvement in this
+ area
+ - A: GB: No, I don't think anything of that sort is available 
+- Q: Have you tried literate programming Julia (using Org babel or
+ some other means) in Emacs?
+ - A: Literate programming in Julia: Pluto (Jupyter-style, in the
+ browser), emacs-jupyter (in Emacs)
+
+## Notes
+
+- Great, now I wanna learn Julia\... :-)
+ - Highly recommend it. Especially if you do any sort
+ of scientific computing. It's an amazing language
+- Lots of things to like. Perhaps the most Dylan-like modern
+ language? 
+- Got me interested in Julia, great talk
+- Sooooo emacs written in julia?
+- Amazing, thank you
+- M-x clap
+- Great talk \[13:10\]
+- Thank you for the talk! \\o/
+- Thank you!
+- I've been so happy ditching python for julia for all
+ my scientific research needs :)
+- Some of these features, like the interactivity and the decompiler
+ reminds of Common Lisp
+- One of Julia's best features (multiple dispatch) was inspired by
+ Common Lisp's defgeneric/defmethod.
+ - I would also add that Julia takes the idea further than Common
+ Lisp ever did, because you can't opt-out of being generic in
+ Julia, so it's everywhere and used pervasively.
+ - In Common Lisp, you had to opt-in, so it wasn't as apparent how
+ powerful this way of organizing code could be.
+- Got me interested in Julia, great talk
+- Sooooo emacs written in julia?
+- akirakyle: First Guile Scheme (re: Robin's talk, next),
+ then Julia! ;-)
+- Yes ;)
+- So julia is like using CLOS everywhere?
+- Sort of, but with the llvm runnig full optimized
+ native code generation for every argument type a function is called
+ with
+- also julia \--lisp is built in!
+- emacs-jupyter works with julia quite well btw
+- org-babel also works well
+- def looking forward to the julia talk
+- It would be great to integrate pluto with emacs, but currently very hard to figure out best way to do so
+- That would be interesting for sure
+- Pluto.run(auto_reload_from_file=true) is the best right now
+ - Problem is pluto is very tied to browser
+ - I dislike leaving emacs for things
+ - But Pluto is a great tool
+ - Same, I suppose one could alternatively say the problem is emacs can't be very easily tied to the browser
+ - As opposed to vscode where such integrations are easier
+ - Although, on the other hand, I am happy emacs isn't tied to a browser
+ - It's better in general
+ - Yes it shouldn't be tied to a browser, but it also would be very helpful for emacs to have better access to rendering content that requires a dom/js environment in an emacs window
+
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