TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram Client

Re:TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram Client by lloeki on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:51AM (#16280910)

They have had two apps (Telegram vs Telegram Desktop) on macOS too for a while. IIRC one is Electron-ish-based and the other is native Cocoa. The first one got features slightly faster but lacked Secret Chats IIRC.

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Re:TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram Client by rplnt on Thursday February 01, 2018 @06:26AM (#16281058)

I was actually positively surprised to see the Telegram application is qt based. Not sure which one is it of the two you mention, it's just called "Telegram", and is same on both Windows and OSX.

Explains why it doesn't take a minute to start and doesn't need a gigabyte of memory.

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Re:TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram Client by aneutron on Thursday February 01, 2018 @07:13AM (#16281289)

Also, I was very surprised to see that it was really QT based in the sense that there was no glue to an attached Chromium or something, just pure QT in C++.

The effort that went into that thing is amazing. It's fast on my 5 years old Pentium.

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Re:TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram Client by jamesb93 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:42PM (#16285670)

Which one should I be using? MacOS specific one feels polished whereas the Telegram for Desktop one doesn't have this strange issue where media sometimes never sends.

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Re:TDLib – Build Your Own Telegram Client by Aloha on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:14PM (#16285963)

I prefer the macOS native client.

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