[nautical]

Last commit seems to be pretty old (~5 years)

https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple/

[memco]

Not sure that’s the right place to look for up to date code. I believe it is self hosted somewhere. The lead developer streams on twitch[0]. Last stream was about a day ago.

[0]: https://twitch.tv/rw_grim

[spiffytech]

The repository list linked from the Pidgin website seems to be pretty active: https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/pidgin/

[thesuitonym]

The nice thing about modular, open source software, is that instead of using the 5 year old client, you can use the one that was last updated two months ago:

https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp/

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

So? That doesn't mean it doesn't still work. I use it every day as my Hangouts[0] client at work[1].

[0] Technically it's a Google Talk client, but it seems to be able to communicate fine with Hangouts users for now.

[1] Yes we use Hangouts at work for intradepartmental chat.

[w0m]

whatsapp existed 5 years ago o.0