[HN Gopher] NativePHP: A framework for building desktop apps usi...
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       NativePHP: A framework for building desktop apps using PHP
        
       Author : brysonreece
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-07-21 22:06 UTC (54 minutes ago)
        
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       | freedomben wrote:
       | _Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They
       | Could, They Didn't Stop To Think If They Should._
       | 
       | On a serious note, this is absolutely badass. In the spirit of
       | hacking, kudos!
       | 
       | The ideal market for this seems to be people with only PHP web
       | app experience that need or want to build a "native" app, that
       | otherwise wouldn't be able to do so with existing tools.
        
         | theteapot wrote:
         | Some people with coding experience just like PHP.
        
       | smashed wrote:
       | What exactly is "native" about this?
       | 
       | I remember there was PHP bindings for GTK [0], which at least
       | looked sort of native on Linux.
       | 
       | This could be cool if you can ship a large PHP backend codebase,
       | allowing a web app to become an offline desktop app. You'd
       | probably have to bundle a MySQL instance many cases though :)
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       | 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP-GTK
        
       | joeldo wrote:
       | So it ships Electron and a PHP runtime - What else can we
       | include?
        
         | skydhash wrote:
         | Apache
         | 
         | A k8s implementation
        
           | rezonant wrote:
           | large language model
        
           | ceejayoz wrote:
           | It ships with two web servers, per the Security page.
        
       | dashesyan wrote:
       | Should be called ElectronPHP
        
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