Version without electron or webcrap?

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Is there a version of deltachat without webshit? I am seeking out apps like this to avoid having my resources hogged by that BS

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  1. you could run the android app in anbox or an android emulator
  2. use the pidgin plugin lupine/purple-plugin-delta: A libpurple plugin for https://delta.chat - purple-plugin-delta - Gitea: Git with a cup of tea (many features are not implemented there yet)
  3. You could write your own front-end based on GitHub - deltachat/deltachat-core-rust: Delta Chat Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop apps, bindings and bots 📧 or join an existing front-end project:
    ~link2xt/kdeltachat - DeltaChat client built with Kirigami - sourcehut git - kde qt client
    GitHub - adbenitez/deltachat-cursed: [WIP] Cursed Delta, a lightweight Delta Chat client for the command line - TUI client based on ncTelegram

Also that question was asked before for Linux at-least:

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I’m also curious about this as well. The KDE/Kirigami link above is worth following up but it requires building from source. My main concern is not dealing with the Electron overhead so would it be possible to create a web-only version without the Electron wrapper? Would that be hard to do?

Then it could be a similar situation to Matrixs element-desktop and element-web packages as yet another alternative way to interact with DeltaChat. It would then be almost a webmail client like Roundcube, but better :slight_smile:

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There are plans to separate Delta Chat Desktop from Electron, mainly for easier debugging and testing, but I can’t find any relevant issue open in https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/issues.

cc @Simon @Jikstra

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