# Status of Julia on Windows

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-julia-on-windows/113050>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [April 17, 2024, 7:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-julia-on-windows/113050 "2024-04-17T07:02:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-julia-on-windows/113050/7 "2024-04-21T16:22:27Z")

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Note that there is now a Windows Developer Mode.

> **[Enable your device for development - Windows apps](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/get-started/enable-your-device-for-development)**
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> Activate Developer Mode on your PC to develop apps.

See my post here for details, including how this enables the use of symlinks:

> [@Windows Developer Mode and Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-developer-mode-and-julia/108937):
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> Microsoft Windows has a relatively new [Developer Mode](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/get-started/enable-your-device-for-development) that has some impact on how Julia is used and functions on that platform. One effect of Developer Mode is enabling [symbolic links](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/). Symbolic links are fancy shortcuts which allow a file or directory (folder) to appear elsewhere in the file system than where they currently are. In cmd.exe, this is done via the mklink command. In PowerShell, this can be done via [New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/new-item?view=powershell-7.4#example-7-create-a-symbolic-link-to-a-file-or-folder). The [matter](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/iso-codes-tree-hash-mismatch/108240) has [recently](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cannot-instantiate-env-in-julia-1-10-adwaita-icon-theme-jll-git-tree-hash-error-anyone-else/108105) come up with a …

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