I am not sure if this appeals to you, but I'm happy to share my configuration. I just use the REPL and a decent editor (vim), which I'm happy with.
I've been using this setup for the past couple months (mid-March). I've only had occasionally issues, but I follow HEAD so that is expected. I am now on 10.9, but this has been short enough that only a few deps have been updated via system homebrew. Things could break there, but never have. The situation I finally created was: - homebrew and then pip to install python / scipy / ipython (see iJulia docs) - git repo of Julia github/master - Pkg.add(...), Pkg.update(), etc. Ideally, I'm not sure I really need the julia homebrew which this uses by default. But it works, so I haven't worried about resolving this. 1. I pull and re-compile master every few days. I usually scan the dev / users list before that to look for any ongoing gotchas, or new github issues. 2. When I compile Julia, and I do a few tests (basic crunching, Winston plots via Cairo, iJulia) then I use a local tag in my git repo to signify the working version. It is just easier for me to roll things back, but certainly not strictly necessary. 3. I usually only Pkg.update() after I've confirmed a new Julia compiles and seems to work from the above tests. Most of the issues I've had were between 2 & 3 not being in sync. Some small changes where packages didn't catch up. I've been impressed with how quickly many of the authors have fixed things, so it's rarely been an issue. The one issue of Julia rollback I had to do was pretty easy (an issue that broke Grid.jl, I rolled back master for a couple days and watched the discussion / issue until it was resolved). I think this works as a lot of developers try and run real stuff with master, and most of the current packages are tracking master as the language develops. YMMV, but I've been satisfied with the stability of this. Cameron p.s. I tried using anaconda to pin the python previously, which worked, but had some issues. I was happier when I did homebrew only python.
