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> "They simply don't have the resources to write and maintain (at least) three desktop apps."

I feel Signal should have implemted the core messaging components as a non-gui program or library or plugin to another Messaging app (e.g. Pidgin). Then if they want their own app, they could have used a lightweight cross platform window toolkit (e.g. WxWidgets or Qt).



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