Thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours[1] have gone into security audits and improvements of Pidgin[2] and are not one-time things; this Google donation has

Thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours[1] have gone into security audits and improvements of Pidgin[2] and are not one-time things; this Google donation has recurred. It makes little sense to me to pick up and move to another platform and product because it's written in JavaScript. The remaining bullet points in this wiki page appear to be fixable with a lot less directed effort than adopting and drastically changing an unpopular application. [1] https://blog.wasilczyk.pl/en/2013/google-donates-pidgin-to-improve-its-security/ https://blog.wasilczyk.pl/en/2013/google-donates-pidgin-to-i... [2] http://pidgin.im/news/security/ http://pidgin.im/news/security/