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Slack takes 5-7 seconds to start up and connect on an ultra low latency 300 Mbit connection. I really wish there were a native app on Mac.

The Slack integration is a bit rough still, but: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

There is:

That’s not a native app, it’s a app wrapping a web view.

AFAICT that is not native:

> Sblack works exactly like a browser with small tweaks. We inject the dark mode style at the end of the Slack’s html, and that’s it

I bet it's just embedding a WebView, and the app is small because it uses the system's WebKit2