Slack is rolling out a brand-new desktop app for its service today. The company is announcing the new rebuilt app, which looks exactly the same as before, but has lots of changes under the hood to make it faster than ever before.
Slack has gotten a lot of — wait for it — flak (sorry)Â for the performance and resource usage of its app, so it’s finally addressing those with the latest update. The new app, according to the company, loads 33% faster than before, and it’s so fast that Slack’s gotten rid of the loading messages.
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Joining incoming calls on the app is also now 10x faster than before, but do keep in mind that these performance gains will differ depending on your actual network.
But more importantly, the new app uses 50% less memory than before. That’s obviously a massive gain in performance, considering the fact that Slack has been criticised in the past for using lots of memory, especially when a user has a lot of workspaces. An engineering deep-dive into the new app explains how Slack has managed to use less memory and introduce the performance gains, but the notable points include a focus on multi-workspace aware code, and a move to React.
Slack’s new app also introduces limited offline support, which lets you set your status, star items, and react to messages when you don’t have an internet connection.
The new app will be rolled out over the next two weeks, you can get it here.Â
dontbe evil
<p>still not fast and light enough, and I have an i7+16gb+nvme ssd</p><p><br></p><p>but guys you love electron and win32 apps, right?</p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#444398">In reply to wright_is:</a></em></blockquote><p>now it's mine too … thanks to paul and all the UWP haters </p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#444517">In reply to illuminated:</a></em></blockquote><p>that limit there is no more, if your app get approve for that special permission… but most of the apps doesn't need that permission and it's much safer</p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#444248">In reply to safesax2002:</a></em></blockquote><p>it runs… pretty well is a big word… try to compare it with a native UWP… here there is an example of to similar app electron/win32 VS UWP</p><p><br></p><p><img src=""><img src="https://i.imgur.com/kw45Hi4.png"></p>
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<blockquote><em><a href="#444339">In reply to illuminated:</a></em></blockquote><p>people talked, many of them here, starting from paul, preferred win32/electron apps to UWP … now we'll "enjoy" it</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/kw45Hi4.png"></p>
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<blockquote><em><a href="#444360">In reply to MikeGalos:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>still electron, still half garbage…people here can enjoy electron/win32 apps, I still prefer UWP as long will be possible</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/kw45Hi4.png"></p>