I have used Zulip in the context of a well-tooled coding/debugging workflow and I can't think of anything it didn't do that would have been useful. Nice integra

I have used Zulip in the context of a well-tooled coding/debugging workflow and I can't think of anything it didn't do that would have been useful. Nice integrations with JIRA and other coding oriented tools. I didn't like the Android UI, but that was a minor point at the time since I'd have to get out my laptop to address an issue anyway. I use Slack for some projects currently, and it's pretty good most of the time, and brilliant some of the time. The UI is slick AF but it stumbles some places, such as spreading UI verbs around the menu bar, a pop-up menu, and a button bar without having the menu bar replicate things like accessing the pinned items pane, which is only a tiny monochrome button in the tiny button bar. IOW it's slick until it isn't. Overall I'd say if you add Zulip to your task list for setting up a coding workflow you won't regret it. Slack is a little easier to get non-technical people on board, especially if they are more smartphone UI oriented, but Slack is no bed of roses, either, when it comes time to explain to users when channels, threads, topics, stars, and pinning are useful.