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Yeah, pretty amusing to hear all these arm-chair quarterbacks on how easy it is to build a rich, real-time chat app like Slack but with native tech. Not only do you have to have all the basic functionality, like emoji reactions, link preview cards, inline images, video, message actions, mention preview, threads, channels, avatars with presence, file attachment upload, etc but you also have to consider that Slack is a moving target. They can't stop shipping new features. They have Microsoft Teams to compete with, which is also an electron app by the way.

Sorry about everyone complaining about CPU, but Slack won the chat wars in part because they were early adopters of Electron, and got plenty of developer productivity benefits out of using the web stack to build on.




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