I've been building web applications for a long time. But there's one thing I've always wanted to build: a desktop application.
There are plenty of solutions out there that let you build desktop apps with web technologies. Some of them use completely different languages for the backend, which never felt right to me. Others, like Electron, use Node.js with Chromium or the host's native web engine. They're genuinely impressive.
However, they wouldn't use Deno.
Deno is built to be minimal. And there was no minimal solution based on Deno that provided the same capabilities as Electron, in a simple way, mostly compatible with most Deno projects.
I've always wanted an Electron-like but for the Deno landscape. When 2.9 shipped, it was finally there.
