# About Julia's development policy regarding Windows

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-julias-development-policy-regarding-windows/128011>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [April 12, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-julias-development-policy-regarding-windows/128011 "2025-04-12T19:29:51Z")\
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> [@albheim](#):
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> I installed julia from the windows store as linked above

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](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/equivalent-of-pythons-inline-script-metadata-pep-723-in-julia/127980/2) 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](https://pumas.ai/). @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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