It used to bundle MSN, ICQ, IRC and everything in one messenger - super resource efficient.
Unfortulately I cannot reach many contacts that way these days but it showed me how inefficient applications became by using more abstraction layers.
Same on my Mac - it uses almost 16GB of RAM in idle mode with some Tabs, VSCode and Figma open - How did we get here?
edit: Just saw another comment mentioning there is a WhatsApp plugin for Pidgin. Awesome!
It used to bundle MSN, ICQ, IRC and everything in one messenger - super resource efficient.
Unfortulately I cannot reach many contacts that way these days but it showed me how inefficient applications became by using more abstraction layers.
Same on my Mac - it uses almost 16GB of RAM in idle mode with some Tabs, VSCode and Figma open - How did we get here?
edit: Just saw another comment mentioning there is a WhatsApp plugin for Pidgin. Awesome!