I do not really understand all this emphasis on using juliaup to install Julia. I will give my two cents on this issue, but I should start with a disclaimer: I am a user, not a developer. I have been teaching a course using Julia and Pluto notebooks since early 2021, with more than 400 students eac…

[image] jules: That the juliaup way requires some familiarity with the command line As far as I remember, installing from DMG on Mac requires setting the path, which is IMO an even more complicated command line operation.

[image] Eben60: As far as I remember, installing from DMG on Mac requires setting the path No, it does not! Your recollection is wrong.

I use juliaup myself, and I fully agree with @VivMendes . Basically, when one only needs one Julia version installed/available, and doesn’t know command line, the so-called “manual” installer is unambiguously easier to use. On Windows and MacOS, it behaves like a lot of other software users see, wit…

Maybe the installation page can look like this? :slight_smile: [image]

The command line for juliaup actually depends on the OS.

People have had issues with the manual installers. Since juliaup is an added layer of moving parts on top of the manual installer, it has those same issues and bugs plus its own issues and bugs. I am on Linux and really like using juliaup, but if it doesn’t work, I have a hard time figuring out why…

This was recently discussed on the repo for the website: make the download warning much more aggressive by Krastanov · Pull Request #2382 · JuliaLang/www.julialang.org · GitHub I personally am strongly against there being any mention of install methods different than juliaup. I have had the exact o…

I like your proposal. But I don’t think there is any stand-alone installer for Linux.

[image] ufechner7: I don’t think there is any stand-alone installer for Linux I think the term “standalone” is very confusing and may mislead newcomers to Julia more than elucidate. Without using juliaup, I can have as many Julia versions installed side-by-side on my computers as I wish (and …

Why is juliaup emphasized as the installation mechanism?

Tooling

aplavin January 5, 2026, 1:24am 24

Oh, I didn’t know! Thought it’s always the same (and that’s one of the benefits).
Anyway:

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Why is juliaup emphasized as the installation mechanism?

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