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sdm on May 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: HipChat is now free for unlimited users

I wouldn't call Hipchat's OS X client native; it's Flash (Adobe Air). The Slack's desktop OS X and iOS apps, while they are html based, are an order of magnitude nicer to use.

wtf242 on May 28, 2014 [–]

no it's not. their new OSX client is native. the old version is Adobe Air.

dkersten on May 28, 2014 | [–]

Their new windows client (and therefore I imagine the others too) appears to be Qt and Webkit. Most of it still seems to be their web app wrapped in native...

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