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by saagarjha 2686 days ago
> Slack and Discord building in Electron means they only need to maintain one codebase across web, desktop, and mobile. They don't need separate teams for building in Java, Swift, and C#.

Did you know that Slack has native iOS and Android apps, as well as a cross-platform C++ "LibSlack" run by another separate team?
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SquareWheel 2686 days ago
I didn't. Are you saying they're not simple containers?
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saagarjha 2685 days ago
Not quite sure what you mean by "simple containers", but yes, they're native apps written in Objective-C and Java IIRC. And here's some more information on LibSlack: https://slack.engineering/libslack-the-c-library-at-the-foun...
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