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Attention: We have decided to join forces with the Julia extension for VSCode. As such, this Atom-based plugin is effectively in “maintenance-only mode” and we expect to only work on bug fixes in the future.

Build Status Chat

Ink is a toolkit for building IDEs in Atom – in particular, it's aimed at providing the UI pieces necessary to build richly interactive, live environments for programming – inspired by the likes of SmallTalk, Lisp, LightTable, DevTools, Swift, and others.

Ink is currently used primarily from the julia-client plugin as an IDE for the Julia language, as well as the awesome proto-repl for Clojure. Although Ink is in an early state, people interested in getting it running with other languages are welcome to reach out.

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Highlights

(These demos show off Ink as part of Julia since it's the most mature project using Ink, but there's nothing Julia-specific about Ink's design)

Evaluation of blocks and lines, with inline results, highlighting of the evaluated block, and loading indicators:

<div align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JunoLab/atom-ink/master/demos/eval.gif" /></div>

Smart tree views for complex results and data:

<div align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JunoLab/atom-ink/master/demos/tree.gif" /></div>

A rich console with the same support for results, as well as history, shell modes etc.:

<div align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JunoLab/atom-ink/master/demos/console.gif" /></div>

Smart errors with live links to files in the backtrace, as well as highlighting of those lines:

<div align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JunoLab/atom-ink/master/demos/errors.gif" /></div>

In future Ink will also support UIs for debugging (e.g. breakpoints), graphics (e.g. plotting panes), documentation (e.g. single-keystroke access to inline docs) and profiling/coverage results (e.g. inline "progress bars" and metrics overlaid with the code).