Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client

Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by butz on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:13PM (#21836843)

Considering that Windows 3.1 takes less space than Electron binary, one can actually run this program in VM and get better performance and less RAM usage than official app.

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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by Shorel on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:59PM (#21841410)

For Slack without Electron there's Ripcord

It runs in Windows, Mac and Linux

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617699

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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by yeokm1 on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:01AM (#21851767)

I updated my blog post to include a memory and disk usage comparison :)

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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by zzo38computer on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:53PM (#21841789)

I have DOSBOX, but Windows 3.1 runs very slowly on DOSBOX.

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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by anthk on Friday December 20, 2019 @03:04PM (#21846961)

I was running win 3.1 under DOSBox fastly since forever (athlon days). You may have some CPU settings wrong.

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