[mrweasel]

Slack is really weird. It seems like they would have the resources to do native applications. I can't fault anyone for doing an Electron app as a demo, prototype, MVP, that's seems completely reasonable.

What I don't get is why they don't want to make a native macOS client, or Windows client. For Linux I get that they don't necessarily know if it should be GTK, QT, should they adopt KDE standards or Gnome, something else maybe? I can see why they would like Electron in that case.

For something like the Mac... They could do a fantastic client, it would use very little memory, play nice with the OS and be fast. Their users would notice and love it.

[paxys]

They have to build and maintain the web version regardless. Why also write individual clients for Windows, Mac and Linux when they can simply wrap the website in a thin desktop wrapper and call it a day?

[mrweasel]

Because they care about the user experience and delivering the best possible product to their customers? Maybe not.

[Jare]

Based on their success, that's exactly what they are already doing, presumably thanks to the choices they are making.

[mrtksn]

Maybe it's easy to sell the "One codebase on all platform" idea to the managers and hard to justify the need for high quality app? People are using it anyway.

[ulfw]

Especially considering they already have a good iOS Client with their iPad app!

[mrweasel]

People could perhaps already use that on the M1 Macs and have a better experience.