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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by driverdan on Monday July 22, 2019 @03:09PM (#20501252)
Their comment had nothing to do with IRC. It was comparing two chat clients and how Slack's Electron version is much worse than a native version.
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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by anchpop on Monday July 22, 2019 @03:11PM (#20501280)
The native client they were referring to was mIRC, which does much less than Slack does. A better comparison might be Discord, which performs much better than Slack and is also written in Electron. VSCode, written in Electron, performs much better for me than Visual Studio (a native app), but I wouldn't use that as proof that Electron is faster than native apps because Visual Studio does so much more
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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by driverdan on Monday July 22, 2019 @03:20PM (#20501368)
The major differences I can think of off the top of my head are threading, reactions, voice chat, and history. Voice chat is the only one that should use significantly more resources than mIRC.
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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by entropicdrifter on Monday July 22, 2019 @03:57PM (#20501714)
Don't forget screen-share and video chat
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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by spookthesunset on Monday July 22, 2019 @05:07PM (#20502333)
> Voice chat is the only one that should use significantly more resources than mIRC.

And you, without knowing all the product requirements and technical constraints, know this exactly how?

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