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What's Signal on Mac, Electron?

• Hamuko 4y ago
  Yes. Signal.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework
  • warkdarrior 4y ago
    What's stopping Signal from creating their own native MacOS app?
    • pksebben 4y ago
      paying developers to do it. Electron vastly cuts down on the amount of time to product with apps like signal. To replicate the results native would require a engineering team.
      • slotrans 4y ago
        Why? Signal is a very simple application. It used to be very common for individual developers, or small teams, to publish native programs. WinZip, Winamp, 7Zip, TreeSize, Tag & Rename, Beyond Compare, Nero, PuTTY, all just off the top of my head. It is very, very possible to create performant, maintainable native software with no larger a developer team than it takes to build web software. We're just collectively too lazy to try.