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If you had a GO-based client, with smooth RAM usage, the level of adoption wouldn't significantly change. Sad but true.

The app could be better on desktop though. Launching it takes ages (sync messages), and after that if I receive a message on my phone it does not always propagate to the app. Messages I send via desktop are also missing on the phone.

But, I love the idea and signal is the only app I use for messaging, so obviously these things don't bother me that much :)

Oh, they bother everybody much, trust me. Daily, somebody whines about how bad Signal experience is.

If I didn't trust their security measure the most, I wouldn't use it.

There are two Python/Java based clients called pyre.chat and signal-weechat, ram use is much lower than Signal Desktop.

Check out my other comment about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19894385

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