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There are a bunch of very promising native desktop Matrix clients in progress:

https://github.com/manuroe/messagerie for instance is a SwiftUI client proof-of-concept that should work on macOS as well as iOS

None are as polished as Riot functionalitywise, but we will get there eventually - even more so if people contribute.

Spectral is quite usable as well in my experience (At-based) https://spectral.encom.eu.org/

Thunderbird also has a Matrix back-end, though XUL is quite close to electron.

I wonder if there's one for emacs.

That's what I'd like to see.

There's the weechat terminal client.

There is.