It seems to me that PlutoDesktop would be the simplest way to get people using Julia without all the normal setup friction and a silver bullet for Julia adoption. Pluto is already being used very successfully for teaching online courses. Simplifying access to that environment sounds like a big win. Just double click a .jl file or launch the application from your OS to immediately start performing some persistent, reactive Julia analysis. It would certainly be a much friendlier UI and setup process than VSCode, which is the currently recommended way to interface with Julia. Unfortunately, the PlutoDesktop project has been “On Hold” without any pre-releases since 2022. What are the roadblocks to getting this functional and fully released?
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