I wish this project godspeed. I used Pidgin on and off over the years. Last time I gave it serious use was around 6-8 years ago, when I created a full Lync / Skype for Business setup for Linux with it. I could even do screen shares and everything. It was a blessing because Linux was still a BYOD thing in my company, no support at all. And of course the stack was Microsoft based. Office already had competent enough web clients, but Teams wasn't on the horizon yet (for our company), and so, I had to keep around a Windows VM for S4B and other random stuff. That is, until I tinkered with Pidgin enough to set it up as a client. I really appreciated that it enabled me to do that, and I wish the best with the current efforts as well. It would be really, really funny to send iMessages with it one day.