I’m curious: after Julia has been installed in the recommended way, is it possible to double-click a .jl file to run it as a script? If not, that might be something to improve on (but you could still, presumably, write a batch file to launch some particular code). If yes, then if I was @uwestoehr and needed to deploy a GUI application on top of scientific Julia code to Windows users, I would write such a launcher script. That script would set up the necessary environment and launch the necessary library code. I would then instruct my “customers” to install Julia and “ship” the launcher script to them. I would definitely not try to ship an .exe or an installer. I’m having trouble imagining an engineering or commercial lab environment where this is not possible. But I don’t know, maybe this is just so beyond the expectation in @uwestoehr’s field that it’s really not an option. I am aware that in the medical industry, Windows is incredibly dominant. So Julia may just not be a good fit for @uwestoehr’s specific needs. On the other hand, I also know that Julia is being used in a big way in the healthcare industry, see Pumas UI. @ChrisRackauckas can tell you a lot more about that, and is definitely someone with a lot of experience with Julia on Windows
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