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Wire is a competitive messenger. One employee there writes a native app with Rust and Gtk. Seems to be something like a voluntary 20% protect though.

https://github.com/wireapp/coax



So you are suggesting they drop a battle-tested, production ready solution currently powering hundreds of apps (https://electron.atom.io/apps/) for one in beta that the developers warn in large capital letters "use at your own risk, still under development"?!




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