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by ohitsdom 4064 days ago
Slack's desktop client is really just a wrapper around a web browser.
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joeyspn 4064 days ago
Electron, specifically...

https://github.com/atom/electron/

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captn3m0 4064 days ago
Interesting. I haven't used it because they don't support Linux yet. (EDIT: I mean Slack, not electron)
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joeyspn 4064 days ago
You can build a wrapper (using a webview) of slack web with nw.js or electron... You'll get pretty much the same functionalities, including desktop notifications for the chats.
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lewisl9029 4064 days ago
It's still a desktop application.

Just built with web technologies vs natively compiled binaries, which is an implementation detail that shouldn't matter to the end user, in my opinion.

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s_dev 4064 days ago
Spotify and Skype come to mind as well.
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jimbobob 4063 days ago
Spotify uses Chromium Embedded Framework to serve a lot of UI elements via HTML/CSS/JavaScript[0]. Anecdotally, there seem to be a number of desktop apps moving in this direction.

[0] http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-technology-behind-the-Spoti...

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ponyous 4063 days ago
Is Skype considered start up?
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