Slack client for the terminal

Re:Slack client for the terminal by dawnerd on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:11PM (#16495747)

I was gonna say there's no way slack uses that much, then I actually looked. 750+mb.... What in the world are they doing?

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Re:Slack client for the terminal by rockostrich on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:05PM (#16496333)

It's based on Electron[1] which has a reputation for being a bit of a resource hog. The upside is that it makes it really easy to create a cross-platform app.

[1] https://electronjs.org/

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Re:Slack client for the terminal by dawnerd on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:43PM (#16496670)

I use quite a few electron apps and none of them seem to get that bad except maybe atom but I have a TON of open windows.

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Re:Slack client for the terminal by flamtap on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:42AM (#16499605)

Slack gets pretty resource-intensive when the user is part of multiple workspaces. I know one of my co-workers is part of three or four, whereas I'm only part of the main company workspace. Co-worker's Slack memory usage is around triple that of my own.

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Re:Slack client for the terminal by panic on Thursday March 01, 2018 @03:25PM (#16495892)

> What in the world are they doing?

Literally no one knows! It's layers upon layers of code. Most of the layers can't even be understood by a single person, let alone the whole program.

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