Native, lightweight alternatives to bloated Electron-based email clients are in demand
A user praises OpenMime, a native macOS Gmail client, for not feeling like a bloated Electron wrapper, highlighting its open-source Swift codebase and a menu-bar interface for quick email triage as key advantages over typical web-wrapper email apps.
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