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Signal

A cross-platform centralized encrypted instant messaging service developed by the non-profit Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC.

Anti-Features / Problems:

SOURCE CODE WEBSITE
Features:     Messenger
    Group Messenger

License(s):     AGPL-3.0
    GPL-3.0

Platforms:     GNU/Linux
    MacOS
    Windows
    iOS
    Android
    Web

Accesses Data from:     signal

Interacts / Publishes to:     signal

Interface:     JavaScript
    Touch
    Custom
    Electron

Electron is a stripped down Chromium web-browser used as a component in an unfortunate amount of modern software. Since it's a tiny web-browser, it gives the developers the ability to deploy their websites as pieces of software installable locally. Hopefully locally. Since it's a small browser, you can't know for sure what parts are local. Electron apps are something in between web-sites and real software. But they feel like real software to the user. One more problem with Electron is that most of the times developing a native application using a native way of rendering it will result in much, much more optimized experience. Electron apps usually eat a lot of resources.


Programming Languages:     Java
    Kotlin

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