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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.

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Some people with coding experience just like PHP.

I have pushed production apps in php, go, .net, java, and j/ts. Touched some Django and Rails along the way. For fun I have played with elixir and more I can't think of at the moment.

I'm personally never as productive and happy as when Laravel happens to be the right tool.

Exactly. I’ve been writing JavaScript as long as I have been writing php and I prefer PHP by a lot.

Laravel is an incredibly productive framework and being able to build desktop apps with Laravel is a dream!

I agree Laravel is a great framework. I use elixir Phoenix as well (similar philosophy). But that doesn't seem like a good model for a desktop app, especially when there are tools like electron where you could build a SPA. The whole route based model makes a lot of sense for web, but on a desktop?

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