Slack is behaving in the same way as innumerable instant messaging clients in the past, because they consider themselves in that category rather than perhaps in

Slack is behaving in the same way as innumerable instant messaging clients in the past, because they consider themselves in that category rather than perhaps in an IRC sort of category which is maybe where you see them? And there's an option to turn that behaviour off, if you don't like it. But I would prefer if it wasn't all Electron because it really does feel like the resource overhead is unnecessary. But if it wasn't done with this tech, we probably wouldn't have a Linux client at all, and maybe not a Mac one either, and personally I prefer it to feel like an application instead of having to run it inside a browser. Kind of hoping Flutter helps advance the situation of cross-platform desktop/web things in a positive way.