Ask HN: Anybody Using PHPDesktop?

10 points by samemail88 4y ago ↗ HN

Ever since I found PHP desktop (https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop), I've been having a blast playing around with it. I've created my own "desktop applications" that I use daily. It's quick to build something I need to run locally (on Windows) vs learning/building an actual Windows application. Also I find PHP easier to build MVPs over Javascript (i.e. Electron). I'm curious if anybody else is building anything using PHP desktop? What kind of applications/services did you build or using with it?

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MH15 4y ago ↗

Even after recent professional experience in modern PHP (7.0+ are much improved over legacy PHP) I'd be hesitant to choose this framework over something like Electron/Tauri, but of course to each their own. PHPDesktop would have to be much nicer than Electron for me to consider using PHP for my application logic.

samemail88 4y ago ↗

I don’t use it for professional development but I do use it for my own productivity applications I run locally.