I was so happy they had finally gone native.
The disappointment is strong.
On a side note, SBlack, a lightweight slack client is very impressive on memory usage [1].
How does this work? I thought Slack deprecated their IRC gateway; is this all API-based then?
> Sblack works exactly like a browser with small tweaks.
Looks like it just wraps the website in this case.
Yes there are clients that use the API. Slack offers a http rest-like api as well as a websockets realtime api. For example, wee-slack[1] (weechat plugin for slack) and slack-term[2] (curses client in golang).