Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
by amedvednikov on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:33AM
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The Swift app and the original Objective-C app are native.
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Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
by saagarjha on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:11AM
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Again, they are native only in that they run native code and use the bare minimum Cocoa (Touch) controls that they are required to do by the system. Everything else is reimplemented, rather poorly IMO.
Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
by fnord123 on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:53AM
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>they are native only in that they run native code
so... native. I'm glad everyone agrees then.
Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
by saagarjha on Friday March 15, 2019 @04:07AM
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> so... native.
No. You're missing the bit where "native" means different things in different contexts; for code it means that the code ends up being compiled for the architecture it's running on, but for UI it means that you're using the platform APIs and following system conventions, which Telegram does not.
Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
by fnord123 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @05:53AM
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I'm not missing it, I just don't care. The only think of interest to me is whether its a shitty memory hog like Teams or other electron programs or not. I don't think I use a single program that uses Cocoa aside from Activiy Monitor.