I'm eagerly waiting for https://volt.ws, which is the only app I know that plans to be a true native client for all those services (no browser, no electron).
The Mac build is out, and I'm waiting for the Linux build which I hope will be out I a few days (same for Windows).
>What language is Volt written in? V. It's a new language I created to develop Volt.
That's some dedication to create your own language for a single program; but looking through the V site and it looks solid. Live reload, blazing fast compilation, and good interop with C/C++ (including conversion from C _and_ C++ code).
> `In the age of 300 MB chat clients and 10 MB web pages we started to forget how powerful our computers are and how much can fit in 1 MB. A lot of time and resoures were spent to ensure the small size and great performance. `
I like the philosophy. He has fit more into an entire desktop program than most sites fit into their initial load. The optional icons that volt loads are larger than the entire code base by 50%.
I'm really curious about what they are using to connect to all those backends at the same time, I'd suspect seriously libpurple there again, but I'm not sure.
Volt looks fantastic, but I doubt their roadmap. When it was first posted a few months ago they had Discord/Telegram set to launch within a month. Seems like the story hasn't changed. I highly doubt they'll be able to add all these integrations by the end of March.
That being said. I like what they're doing and I'm happy to be proven wrong
It's against Slacks ToS to recreate the main app offering so I'll be curious to see how long they can offer Slack support. I'm pretty sure they even killed the slack terminal client someone created awhile back.
> It's against Slacks ToS to recreate the main app offering
Please provide a reference. The ToS suggest that your are not allowed to produce a competing _service_ (i.e. a server replicating the API).
The Slack API even provides special client tokens to application vendors, so you would assume this is considered OK?
> I'm pretty sure they even killed the slack terminal client someone created awhile back
I'm pretty sure they didn't (why would they?). Just a claim anyways ;-)
+100 for this effort, I don't even have much use for it but I applaud his effort to have a small client.
I've given €10 on patreon, this attitude should be encouraged.
I was really hyped when I first saw it, downloaded immediately, but was left somewhat underwhelmed by instability and lack of touted features...Most useful stuff is said to be coming shortly, but I'm not sure if some of it is at all possible (e.g. Slack support like others pointed out). In any case, this would be an absolutely amazing app and I chipped in, but have doubts...
The Mac build is out, and I'm waiting for the Linux build which I hope will be out I a few days (same for Windows).