Building desktop applications has traditionally been a challenge in the Perl ecosystem. While we have excellent tools for web development, backend services, and system administration, creating native feeling desktop apps often meant learning and wrestling with complex GUI toolkits or abandoning Perl altogether. Chandra attempts to change that equation. What is Chandra? Chandra is a Perl module that lets you build cross-platform desktop applications using the web technologies you already know — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — while keeping your application logic in Perl. Under the hood, it leverages native webview components (WebKit on macOS/Linux, Edge on Windows) to render your UI, giving you the best of both worlds: native performance with web flexibility. use Chandra:: App ; my $app = Chandra:: App -> new ( title => ' My First App ', width => 800 , height => 600 , ); $app -> set_content (' <h1>Hello from Perl!</h1> '); $app -> run ; That's it.…