Will PHP ever success to enter desktop application arena?

[mingmangat]

Friends,

In the last two days we can see a new effort to bring PHP into desktop application arena. This effort done by Klorofil Collaboration Project (or Klorofil for short) with their gambArt GUI framework. This is not a new effort. Indeed, we have seen two other warriors before:
- PHP-GTK
- WinBinder

My questions are:

• Will this third warrior (Klorofil with its gambArt) success? What do you think about gambArt compared with other solution? (PHP-GTK, WinBinder).
• How success are PHP-GTK and WinBinder to bring PHP into desktop?
• Do we really need to run PHP as a non-web application? (a.k.a desktop application)

Ming

[Weedpacket]

Well, the third question is easy: no, but we don't really need PHP; it's just nice to have. It doesn't hurt.

The other two need precognition and that's something I've never got the hang of.

[_theworks]

why would you want to use php as a desktop application devlopment language.. it was developed for serverside use in the first place why should we change that?
why not just use c++ syntax is similar enough to php anyway...