For me, I’d rather develop a web app instead. To make GUI app pretty is so damn hard!
I tried to make a Gtk app a while ago (on v0.7) and it’s pretty snappy, starts in maybe 2s. It’s huge though (700MB), but considering you get a lot of stuff with it (Gtk + Julia) it’s not that bad if you want to make a complex software.
I have removed it from the repository, and considered this:
I tried that but the action resulted in a windows build which crashes after run. I didn’t investigate.
I ended up with a new repository GitHub - oheil/PlayGroundApp which just holds the ZIP archive for the stand alone app and with that:
You’ve used 100% of your data plan for Git LFS on your personal account oheil. Please purchase additional data packs to cover your bandwidth and storage usage:
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is fake news. 
What kind of account are you using? I’ve never hit any limits on github, I was under the impression that public repos are free.
It’s called “GitHub Free” but this doesn’t mean “unlimited”, I guess.
Ok, did some search, it is about Large Files:
About storage and bandwidth usage
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Maybe not that painful.
Anyone remember drawing a first plot with Gadfly.jl on Julia 0.3 takes 100s+? 
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