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## How to use Messages for Macintosh
There are two setup guides for Messages for Macintosh:
- [the user-facing setup guide](https://henlin.net/), for users not interested in exploring the development workflow. This is the article you want if you just want to use your old Mac to chat.
- [the developer-facing setup guide](https://henlin.net/), which explains how to set Messages for Macintosh up in such a way that you can make modifications to its different pieces
## Technologies
Messages for Macintosh is built on a lot of technologies. The READMEs of each of these is each worth familiarizing yourself with if you would like to contribute to Messages for Macintosh:
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- [CoprocessorJS](https://github.com/CamHenlin/coprocessor.js) - a library that allows us to handle nodejs workloads sent over a serial port
- [serialperformanceanalyzer](https://github.com/CamHenlin/serialperformanceanalyzer) - used to analyze the performance of many different parts of the application
## How to use Messages for Macintosh
There are two setup guides for Messages for Macintosh:
- [the user-facing setup guide](https://henlin.net/), for users not interested in exploring the development workflow. This is the article you want if you just want to use your old Mac to chat.
- [the developer-facing setup guide](https://henlin.net/), which explains how to set Messages for Macintosh up in such a way that you can make modifications to its different pieces
## Limitations / areas for improvement
Messages for Macintosh is not perfect. Here are some known limitations and things that could be improved: