Hi all,
I used Laragon on Windows for years and loved it. Then I moved to Apple and couldn’t find anything that felt the same. DDEV and the others are good tools, but it feels overkill: containers, config layers, a CLI, or just bloated.
Kirby got me used to a different idea — it’s just files and folders. I wanted my local environment to be the same, so I built one: Wharf.
It runs plain nginx, Apache and PHP as normal processes on the machine, no Docker and no VM. A folder is a project, it stays where it lives, and it’s reachable at something like my-kirby-site.localhost.
I also wanted to build a native desktop application with Flutter anyway, so the app is Flutter on top of a small Go daemon. With a bit of help from Claude it got further than I expected the last weekends.
There are downloads for macOS, Windows and Linux now, but it’s young software — bear with me on bugs. 
It`s Open Source! 
https://wharf.kreativ-anders.dev
Maybe it’s useful to some of you or you want to try something new!? I’d be happy for any feedback, including what’s missing or plainly wrong! Like typical … Currently it is working on my machines 