phpdesktop VS Nim

I am a bit surprised by the critical tone in the comments here. Phpdesktop [1] is, for example, a very nice application, and the ability of php to just make some simple scripts on the go and have something that works, is wonderful (compared to js where you often have to build etc, the threshold of getting started on a new computer is high). I have several times needed to make simple applications with a database, and php is perfect for that usecase. Making it simpler to share these applications to non-technical users for offline use is nice

[1] https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop

I’ve been using PHP Desktop for a while for internal tools. https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop

There's a project to make php apps -- https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop -- but it doesn't have Mac support yet. Alas.

Since we're in the webdev subreddit, I suppose you will use a webstack. Here is what I have been using in an institution with a hellish ton of xp computers: PHPDesktop ChromeV47 . PHP is not mandatory, since it basically searches for and index.* file, which can be a html file with a lot of js. Use jquery with ajax calls to make your life easier for API requests and other stuff of old era JS (I dont remember if it supports fetch api and newish QOL changes). You basically develop a web app in a chrome wrapper. Works just fine on oldies.

re-write it as a desktop app, you could use php desktop to save time.

PHP Desktop seems to use 7.2.12, which reached end of life on late 2020. I wouldn't put my eggs in that basket.

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?

Go to this repo https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop by Czarek Tomczak, then search for downloads. As I’m working with Windows, I used PHP Desktop v57.0 for Windows release (https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop/releases/tag/chrome-v57.0-rc). Download the zip file and extract the content wherever you want. Rename the folder as you prefer, you could use the name of your website. Let’s call it Myapp. This is a sort of container with a self-contained web server (Mongoose) and PHP 7.1.3. For example, launching the exe file called phpdesktop-chrome.exe will “read” what’s inside the Myapp/www folder. That’s where you will have to move your entire website to.

There's also phpdesktop which is akin to Electron and other such things.

22. Nim - $80,000

I think the right answer to your question would be NimLang[0]. In reality, if you're seeking to use this in any enterprise context, you'd most likely want to select the subset of C++ that makes sense for you or just use C#.

[0]https://nim-lang.org/

I don't think it's a rust-inspired language, but since it has strong typing and compiles to javascript, did you give a look at nim [0] ?

For what it takes, I find the language very expressive without the verbosity in rust that reminds me java. And it is also very flexible.

[0] : https://nim-lang.org/

I see a valid cert for https://nim-lang.org/

FYI, on the front page, https://nim-lang.org, in large type you have this:

> Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula.

You better off with using a compiled language.

If you interested in a language that's compiled, fast, but as easy and pleasant as Python - I'd recommend you take a look at [Nim](https://nim-lang.org).

And to prove what Nim's capable of - here's a cool repo with 100+ cli apps someone wrote in Nim: [c-blake/bu](https://github.com/c-blake/bu)

Chapel has at least several full-time developers at Cray/HPE and (I think) the US national labs, and has had some for almost two decades. That's much more than $100k.

Chapel is also just one of many other projects broadly interested in developing new programming languages for "high performance" programming. Out of that large field, Chapel is not especially related to the specific ideas or design goals of Mojo. Much more related are things like Codon (https://exaloop.io), and the metaprogramming models in Terra (https://terralang.org), Nim (https://nim-lang.org), and Zig (https://ziglang.org).

But Chapel is great! It has a lot of good ideas, especially for distributed-memory programming, which is its historical focus. It is more related to Legion (https://legion.stanford.edu, https://regent-lang.org), parallel & distributed Fortran, ZPL, etc.