NativePHP Team Shows Off PHP-Driven Native macOS App, No Electron in Sight
The NativePHP team has built a proof-of-concept macOS app with a fully native UI, entirely driven by PHP instead of Electron, Tauri or a web view.
R/PHP (TOP), July 19, 2026
curated by Sönke
A new extension called SuperNative compiles PHP into a custom binary format embedded directly in a Swift shell, delivering microsecond UI round-trips in a 24MB app running full Laravel.
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