# How to create standalone applications for Windows with a \[G\]UI in Julia 1.11 or 1.12

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**Created:** [April 7, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-standalone-applications-for-windows-with-a-g-ui-in-julia-1-11-or-1-12/127823 "2025-04-07T23:09:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 11:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-standalone-applications-for-windows-with-a-g-ui-in-julia-1-11-or-1-12/127823/70 "2025-04-16T11:46:31Z")

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> [@Palli](#):
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> (maybe the reason you adopted Julia, why did you?

These were basically my points:

- new feature for our software should be to classify sensor data with small neuronal nets → we need mature NN libraries, thus either Python or Julia
- there should be an active community → Python and Julia have, both also have their own conferences
- we supply scientists → Julia is focused on that, Python is also widely adopted in R&D, but before it is compiled to e.g. C its code runs slow → for rapid prototyping Julia seems to be better
- we need a UI → both offer to compile its code as library to use it for GUI programming of our choice

In effect, except of the potential faster development, Python and Julia were on a par, so I decided to use Julia.  
Except of the last point, I was right. Meanwhile I struggle with a point I did not have in mind - the development policy. I work with Python for 15 years now, despite I never fall in love with it. But I never had regressions that blocked me, for known issues workaround were published. I also cannot remember a case where a regression was known but a new release was issued. For Julia this is not the case. Take the case of _PackageCompiler_. Since Julia 1.11 one cannot use more than one thread. This reduces the compilation speed a lot. The problem was already reported in October. But since it was not mentioned in release notes, I run into that. Now I know, but it caused me hours to find out and thus of course also unnecessary frustration. Now I see that Julia 1.11.5 was released and despite this ongoing discussion, the issue is still not mentioned in the release notes and a new release was made despite there is a known regression. However, for this issue I already created a [separate discussion](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-julias-development-policy-regarding-windows/128011) thread.

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