Occasionally I try to find alternatives for electron apps because I think that electron just uses too much RAM. This led me to a little Signal Desktop (an electron app) alternative called gurk, which uses significantly less RAM. On my machine Signal Desktop takes about 1GB RAM and gurk just 40MB. That’s an enormous reduction of memory usage, but not a completely fair comparison. Why? Because gurk requires a terminal to run in, which in my case is Alacritty.