[Imustaskforhelp]

I have actually known* about Ant for some time from your previous submissions and its really interesting and I wish the project luck!

Do you think that Ant could be used to create a small index.html/css/js project into an desktop app minimally.

I currently found deno desktop which is pretty recent to be the easiest way of doing this for one of my projects (https://epub.mirror.forum) but I found there to be some issues within deno-desktop in terms of some features not working on the desktop app but I overall really like the idea of converting these files into desktop apps and I am wondering if ant could be suitable for that, so I am curious to hear what you think :-D

[theMackabu]

just got the thing for you actually! literally just finished a stable version last night, https://www.npmjs.com/package/ant-desktop. WIP still, chromium only renderer backend but webview and other backends coming soon as well. no local ant install needed as libant is bundled, when CI finishes ill have windows/linux builds too

[cognitiveinline]

How big are these binaries? the big electron complaint is the large binaries. if these are under 10mb, you have a winner.

[Imustaskforhelp]

Oh great! it seems, that great thinkers think alike :-D

Good to see that you are already working on it though, Good luck and I will hopefully try to keep a keen eye on the project for my use-cases when I need something more flexible than rust iced applications but also having a small footprint. It's good to see more competition within this space so good luck with that!

[theMackabu]

:D

[douxx]

Ant desktop is currently in development, from what I recall http://ants.land/ant-desktop

[Imustaskforhelp]

Hmm, the ants.land website in general isn't resolving for my desktop but it is resolving for my laptop, a bit strange.

It states: Server Not Found, Zen can’t connect to the server at ants.land What can you do about it? Try connecting on a different device. Check your modem or router. Disconnect and reconnect to Wi-Fi.

yet my laptop which also uses zen which is also connected to the same Wi-Fi resolves the page so I am not sure.

[douxx]

Weird, maybe your DNS settings on your desktop or an extension blocking it?

[theMackabu]

thats very weird, its hosted on cloudflare workers atm. might be blocked by your isp? ive seen that happen to .land

[Imustaskforhelp]

Oh I think that I might be getting it now but I had an custom nextdns profile set up on my browser using nextdns with some more aggressive setups using typosquatting protection etc.

It seems that changing the dns setting made it resolve and afterwards even going back to the same profile is now (resolving it again?) [Could it be that the domain is now cached not needing to go to the dns provider] but I guess that I wouldn't blame you guys about it so much and just wanted to inform y'all of it :-D

> ive seen that happen to .land

interesting, is there any reason behind DNS/(ISP?) providers blocking .land domains?

[theMackabu]

> interesting, is there any reason behind DNS/(ISP?) providers blocking .land domains?

tbh have not seen any reason behind it, just saw my ants.land get blocked a office firewall once while demoing