Global environments for experimentation and one-off work

[wolthom]

Hey There,

I hope this is the right place for a feature idea / request:

Alongside my work in Python, I also regularly dabble / script in Julia.

Two very useful features (especially in combination) are flexible selection of the active Julia version (via juliaup) and global environments.
If I understand this page of the documentation correctly (Shims), the first is already very nicely integrated (e.g. by running python +3.11).

The second feature would make this an awesome combination.
In Julia, a user can run:

using Pkg
Pkg.activate("@ds")

Which corresponds to an environment located at ~/.julia/environments/ds.

I don't have a strong perspective on the details for rye so far, but find myself regularly missing a global playground e.g. for data science experimentation, trying out new packages etc. (With Python in general, that is.)

Opinions on this are very welcome!

Best regards,
Wolf

[MatthewScholefield]

Related: #1093