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Re:700M users and Premium by BatteryMountain on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:00AM (#31807497)
Checkout it's memory footprint on desktop. It is not using typical web tech (aka electron). It's just C++ & QT.

List of third-party tech in their desktop stack listed here:

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Re:700M users and Premium by ggktk on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:06AM (#31808853)
The Mac client leaks a lot of memory when you run it for a while. Yesterday I had to restart it because it was using 2GB of RAM.