Most of the stuff is taken from the fact that Ripcord is multiplatform. It uses Qt5, it takes lots of space, but works everywhere. Ripcord also bundles lots of

Most of the stuff is taken from the fact that Ripcord is multiplatform. It uses Qt5, it takes lots of space, but works everywhere. Ripcord also bundles lots of libraries for lots of file formats (audio, video), bundles OpenSSL for cryptography support (although the library is from 2014, and probably should be updated), should theoretically support Wayland (at least it has some libs for supporting it), etc. MSN Messenger probably uses WinAPI and being a Windows-only program it can get away with it.