I visited another surveyor this afternoon and he said he was thinking of using AI to automate tasks such as looking up the adjoiners of a lot. I told him that made no sense and suggested using shell scripts and Julia scripts. I showed him a Julia script that I used to rename a thumb-drive-ful of old plats that a surveyor (possibly he) had given me, from various filename formats to what I use, which is ~/surveying/plats/rutherford/123-45.tif where 123 is the book number and 45 is the page number. He then brought up julialang.org and I asked him to install it using the curl command that came up. He’s running Windows and got something other than a curl command (I just checked the site and it’s a winget command). He clicked on something and got a rectangular thing with a Julia logo that said it’s version 1.19.something (I don’t remember what it was, but it’s greater than 1.12, which is the current Julia version) and said it’s preparing the computer, or something like that. This went on for several minutes with no apparent progress. I don’t know Windows, and it was time for me, and him shortly later, to go home. I suspect he doesn’t know how to use the command line. How can I help him install Julia?
This is straightforward. What you’re likely seeing is the Juliaup version, with its latest release being v1.18.9 v1.19.3.
First, press Win+R, type cmd, paste winget install --name Julia --id 9NJNWW8PVKMN -e -s msstore to install Juliaup.
After installation completes, enter Juliaup add release to install the latest version of Julia.
Juliaup is the Julia installer, and it currently has version 1.19. See: GitHub - JuliaLang/juliaup: Julia installer and version multiplexer
If you install Julia via the Windows store, in reality, juliaup gets installed, and you can then use it to install Julia.
You can also install it from the command line:
winget install --name Julia --id 9NJNWW8PVKMN -e -s msstore
This installs both juliaup and Julia.
Full instructions: Installing Julia