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Whatsapp is going to run terribly... (www.androidcentral.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BnjmnBanks@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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All these (ad)ons always take priority over performance.

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[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

WhatsApp actually uses the native UI frameworks of each operating system on all major platforms now, meaning whatever the latest Windows UI framework is called and Swift UI on macOS. Their mobile apps natively use Material on Android and Swift UI on iOS respectively, and always have been.

I actually think it's great. One of the few service-based multi-platform apps that actually has native clients on all platforms as opposed to Electron apps or React "native" or whatever. It does this better than pretty much any other messenger (Telegram, Signal etc. on desktop are all Electron apps or similar).

I'll bail out if (or inevitably when) they add more and more bloat (like channels or this shopping stuff for example).