This looks interesting but what is more interesting to me is the brackets-shell, which looks to be a chromium shell for running an HTML/JS app as a native application. It looks to be very minimal and would just be fantastic for creating desktop apps. Every one of the existing solutions I've checked out so far all kinda suck in some way.

I hadn't realized that was working yet. I saw the repo for the shell itself is here https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell - it seems almost like a lightweight version of AIR. Does anybody have any more information on this..?