[atarian]

I was hoping for an actual desktop app powered by PHP, which would be really cool having PHP as a desktop runtime.

[aarondf]

You might enjoy https://nativephp.com/

[endofreach]

Lol, what? Haven't heard of this... What's your experience with nativePHP?

While i am a defender of modern (!) php for web applications, this does sound rather weird. But also interesting. Thanks for the link.

I wonder though how "native" this is? Glancing over the docs it seems to be built upon tauri / electron? Not as native as i expected, but probably more native than most people would dare to think about...

[pocketarc]

Sibling mentioned nativephp, but PHP-GTK[0] was also a thing in the past!

[0]: https://gtk.php.net

[jorvi]

I am aware modern PHP is actually pretty good, but having grown up with PHP in the 2000s I can't help but get chills up my spine every time I read '$nonWebThing written in PHP'

[zerr]

And Delphi for PHP.

[aarondf]

Alas

[felbane]

...would it?

I guess maybe if it was PHP8 only...