Telegram: Video Calls and Seven Years

Re:Telegram: Video Calls and Seven Years by chacha2 on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:41AM (#24169642)

What I don't understand is why the free software movement so often reinvents the wheel, Telegram releases all the code to their UI but any new security focused chat app always starts from the ground up.

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Re:Telegram: Video Calls and Seven Years by dexwell on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:42PM (#24170195)

I think developers prefer writing code they understand over trying to understand someone else's code. I've taken a look at Telegram's codebase, and replacing the Telegram API with the Matrix API is way harder than it sounds. Telegram wasn't developed with this flexibility in mind, and the Matrix SDK has its own way of doing things.

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Re:Telegram: Video Calls and Seven Years by devxpy on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:52PM (#24170268)

This. I often end up writing my own libraries because of this reason. Kinda hard to get into other people's minds...

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