A native WhatsApp client in Rust for Linux, macOS & Windows
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I built ZapFast⚡ A native WhatsApp client in Rust for Linux, macOS & Windows In my Linux test: 150MB RAM vs 1.13GB for WhatsApp Web + Chromium Chat UI appeared in ~0.7s vs ~4s yay -S zapfast-bin https://zapfast.rocks
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