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by ale42 212 days ago
> have a good, native desktop application.

Indeed. I'm not actively using Telegram, but I tried the desktop application (made with Qt if I remember well), and it's way ahead of what Whatsapp offers. Not to mention it's fast and relatively light.
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jeroenhd 211 days ago
It's made with Qt indeed, the source code is here: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Facebook could just take the app, change the colour's to make it green, and replace the messaging protocol with their WhatsApp library, and they'd get an actually usable chat client practically for free.

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