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Nice! I remember using a tool called Appcelerator Titanium about 15 years ago. It was like a precursor to Electron, and you could use various languages to build desktop and mobile apps - including PHP. It blew my mind at the time that this was possible.

https://benramsey.com/blog/2009/10/building-titanium-with-ph...

Glad to see the PHP desktop app dream has been kept alive :)

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Shame that project went the way that it did. A bit ahead of its time if you ask me. There were a lot of controls that phones just didn't support well enough which complicated the project. It was more of a Cordova or Haxe than an Electron though.

Unbelievably, Haxe is still actively maintained. I keep saying I'll get into it, but I never do.

Thanks for sharing. Can you help me understand the difference between Cordova/Haxe and Electron? I mostly do web dev.

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