<story><title>PHP Cross-Platform Desktop GUI Framework</title><url>https://github.com/naetech/nightrain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antihero</author><text>The problem with whimsical projects is that eventually people make things in them thinking they are serious, and then other people have to maintain said things.</text></item><item><author>TamDenholm</author><text>Can i just say that clearly everyone knows its not the best tool for an actual serious project, but theres nothing wrong with whimsy. Its fun to do things because you can, that doesnt mean its going to become a serious tool. We just had a story about &amp;quot;Stupid Projects From The Stupid Hackathon&amp;quot;[1], just because its not a serious tool doesnt mean we should be throwing the hate, lets just take it for what it is, a bit of fun and a project you do because you can.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8621886&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=8621886&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mox1</author><text>kind of like javascript (originally created in 10 days)...[1]&lt;p&gt;Eventually if people like the core idea, these things enter a positive feedback loop and the quality goes up. If nobody likes it or uses it...no harm.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/A_Short_History_of_JavaScript&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.w3.org&amp;#x2F;community&amp;#x2F;webed&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;A_Short_History_of_J...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>PHP Cross-Platform Desktop GUI Framework</title><url>https://github.com/naetech/nightrain</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>antihero</author><text>The problem with whimsical projects is that eventually people make things in them thinking they are serious, and then other people have to maintain said things.</text></item><item><author>TamDenholm</author><text>Can i just say that clearly everyone knows its not the best tool for an actual serious project, but theres nothing wrong with whimsy. Its fun to do things because you can, that doesnt mean its going to become a serious tool. We just had a story about &amp;quot;Stupid Projects From The Stupid Hackathon&amp;quot;[1], just because its not a serious tool doesnt mean we should be throwing the hate, lets just take it for what it is, a bit of fun and a project you do because you can.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8621886&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=8621886&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kelvin0</author><text>Isn&amp;#x27;t that how PHP was created in the first place? And it just caught liek wildfire ... the rest is history as they say</text></comment>