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volt

Mobile & Desktop2018–2021

voltapp / volt

volt

300 KB desktop client for Slack, Skype, Twitter, Telegram, and more

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300 KB desktop client for Slack, Skype, Twitter, Telegram, and more

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2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	5
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	4
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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erk__·Aug 17, 2021

Thought that the source code had been released, but it seems to still be missing for now. [0] There also does not seem to have been any updates the last half year, so its interesting it came up on Hacker News now. [0]: https://github.com/voltapp/volt

In Volt: A tiny native desktop client for Slack, Discord, and more

pityJuke·Sep 15, 2020

Part of this authors' "vaporware" criticism aims squarely at his "Volt" app [2] (the reason for this language), which was supposed to be released sometime last year, but as far as I can see, after some buggy beta releases [1], has disappeared again. It may be coming back [3], but a lot of confusion here. [4] [1]: https://twitter.com/volt_app [2]: https://volt-app.com/ [3]: https://github.com/voltapp/volt/issues/164 [4]: https://github.com/voltapp/volt/issues/149

In The V Programming Language

atombender·Jul 22, 2019

The Volt app actually looks in your browser files to steal its Slack login session cookie: https://github.com/voltapp/volt/issues/143.

In When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop

boapnuaput·Jun 20, 2019

Language author here; I work on a modern flavor of a classic 90s language. There are three problems. The first is that closed languages die [0]. V is not Free Software, which is disappointing but not atypical; however, V is not even open source, which precludes a healthy community. Additionally, closed languages tend to have bad patterns like code dumps over the wall, poor community communication, untrustworthy binary behaviors [1], and delayed product/feature releases. Yes, it's certainly embarrassing to have years of history on display for everybody to see, but we all apparently have gotten over it. What's hiding in V's codebase? We don't know. As a best guess, I think that the author may be ashamed of the particular nature of their bootstrap. The second is that V's author makes promises and claims which are then retracted, falsified, o

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r untestable. Most notably, source for V's toolchain has been teased repeatedly as coming soon, but has never been released. Without an open toolchain, none of the claims made on V's front page [2] can be verified. Finally, because we can't not talk about it, V isn't a very compelling language. At best, it could be seen as an iterative improvement on Go. If V were more open, then we could make more sincere and complete comparisions, but as it is, V's author alone gets to control the comparisons [3] and benchmarks [4]. Maybe the best argument to be made is that there is room for a series of languages which focus on compile speed, where languages like Go, Jai, and V compete based primarily on how quickly they can transform zero-cost abstractions into low-level code in a single pass. ...But if that's the game, then it's only a matter of time until one of them rediscovers FORTH... [0] https://blog.golang.org/open-source [1] https://github.com/voltapp/volt/issues/143 [2] https://vlang.io/ [3] https://vlang.io/compare [4] https://vlang.io/compilation_speed

In V Programming Language released

nelsonic·Feb 12, 2019

Looks promising. But will only be Open Source in "2021" according to https://github.com/voltapp/volt ... until then it's a root-kit for all we know that people are voluntarily installing.

In Volt: Fast native desktop client for Slack and Skype

legostormtroopr·Feb 7, 2019

So Volt seems interesting, but how to I download it? All of the download links just give todays date and issues in the GitHub page the site links to mention it being flagged by virus or not being supported. https://github.com/voltapp/volt/issues

In About V, the language Volt is written in

sdwisely·May 3, 2018

there is a libnanovg.a homebrew formula for now. https://github.com/eul-im/eul/issues/83#issuecomment-3844554... eul only supports twitter, slack and skype atm and the rest say they're coming later in march. The roadmap shows may-june.

In Eul – The language

hau·May 2, 2018

Given the relationship between eul author and deadlines it won't happen in 2018. Author also promised to open-source eul itself at first but last statement is "I'm not 100% sure it's going to be possible."[0] Current state of eul app also hinting that most likely nothing of value would be lost if this language won't be open-sourced. [0] - https://github.com/eul-im/eul/issues/45#issuecomment-3356427...

In Eul – The language

textmode·May 2, 2018

This works: https://github.com/eul-im/eul/releases/download/v0.34/eul_li... Aside: This is 64-bit. Is there a 32-bit version?

In Eul – The language

pharrington·Feb 17, 2018

He's worse than having no github: https://github.com/eul-im/eul

In Twitter Killing Its Mac App

j_s·Jan 18, 2018

eul.im is a closed-source commercial lightweight chat client launched 6 months ago; the author spent a few months advertising on related discussions until snagging a bit of critical feedback. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=eul.im&sort=byDate&type=commen... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597468 (apparently it still downloads a 180MB embedded browser https://github.com/eul-im/eul/issues/60) There is also https://github.com/bkanber/Slackadaisical (no development since initial October appearance) CLI and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15597508 >nikisweeting: https://github.com/saenzramiro/rambox [...] https://github.com/meetfranz/franz [...] share one Electron instance for all your chat services

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