[sundarurfriend]

> 1. It doesn't have one main open source IDE like Octave/Rstudio that you can drop in and play around in. (you can see plots docs repl workspace)

It's looking like VS Code (julia-vscode.org) will be the equivalent, and it's gotten a good chunk of the way towards that - "plots docs repl" are all existing features and pretty easy to use. The docs [1] show a "Workspace" feature too. There's also some integration with tools like JET.jl [2] so that there's in-editor code analysis and diagnostics.

(And the extension works in VS Codium as well, so you can go completely FOSS if that's your wish.)

[1] https://www.julia-vscode.org/docs/stable/userguide/grid/ [2] https://aviatesk.github.io/JET.jl/stable/