# Is it a good idea to invest time in learning Julia for creating GUI applications for Windows?

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**Created:** [December 31, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-a-good-idea-to-invest-time-in-learning-julia-for-creating-gui-applications-for-windows/32821 "2019-12-31T08:50:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinod\_kc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vinod_kc/32/10857_2.png) [@vinod\_kc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vinod_kc)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-a-good-idea-to-invest-time-in-learning-julia-for-creating-gui-applications-for-windows/32821/1 "2019-12-31T08:50:58Z")

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Hi all,  
I am a hobby programmer and would like to create some gui applications for windows. My current aim is to use win32 API but if there is any better gui toolkits in Julia, i am ok with that. So this is my question, Is it a good idea to spend some time for learning Julia with this aim ? Any suggestions ?

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**Author:** ![baggepinnen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/baggepinnen/32/693_2.png) [@baggepinnen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/baggepinnen)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-a-good-idea-to-invest-time-in-learning-julia-for-creating-gui-applications-for-windows/32821/2 "2019-12-31T09:32:45Z")

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If that is all you want to do, something like c# might be better suited. Julia is an excellent all-purpose language that’s both easy and fun to write, but for gui applications on windows, c# and colleagues are quite outstanding.

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**Author:** ![vinod\_kc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vinod_kc/32/10857_2.png) [@vinod\_kc](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vinod_kc)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-a-good-idea-to-invest-time-in-learning-julia-for-creating-gui-applications-for-windows/32821/3 "2019-12-31T12:24:30Z")

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@baggepinnen  
Thanks for the reply. I already know c# & [vb.net](http://vb.net). I am a hobbyist, so i would like to experiment with the gui stuff in different languages. That’s why i am planning to learn Julia.