“If we were to rebuild the social network today, we would do that around messaging,” head of Messenger consumer products Asha Sharma said during her keynote at Facebook’s F8 developers conference in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday.
Sharma detailed Facebook’s plans to make Messenger “the fastest communication app on the entire planet” with Project LightSpeed, a through rebuild of the application on a new code base that will result in a faster (well under two seconds to start up) and slimmer (less than 30 megabytes, or 70 MB less than the current app) Messenger later this year.
“We are rewriting the entire thing from scratch to deliver the best messaging experience there is,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during his keynote.
A new Messenger desktop app for Windows and MacOS is also being tested, with plans to roll it out globally later in the year.
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