Feature request: Multiple Julia REPLs

[AndiMD]

Hi,

sometimes it is useful to have multiple Julia REPLs running. This is already possible by starting another Julia instance from a bash terminal, but evaluation of code always seems to go to the first REPL.

I miss this feature from Spyder with IPython, where the currently active IPython REPL is automatically used to run the code. IMO very useful 1) for long running tasks, or 2) to preserve a program state, and continuing work elsewhere.

Best regards,
Andreas

[davidanthoff]

I agree, that would be a cool feature!

[PetrKryslUCSD]

Any progress?

[PetrKryslUCSD]

What does "Julia: Run in a new process" do? In my vscode it just runs the debugger...

[pfitzseb]

Multiple concurrent REPLs are unlikely to happen anytime soon. Something a bit more realistic would be to show a selector that lets you switch between a bunch of persistent tmux sessions when starting Julia.

[oschulz]

Would this be possible nowadays? Since we can do multiple Julia notebooks, that all talk to the language server, maybe multiple REPLs would be an option? Would be very useful when teaching Julia and so on.

[nsiccha]

This would be very nice! Then I could (more easily) do something else while some long(ish) running computation is happening in the "main" REPL. 🚀