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I think telegram is one of the operating systems of the future, most just haven't realized it yet.

Using their API and System to develop apps is a breath of fresh air after years of bad and broken web APIs, non portable and cluttered native GUI frameworks, and app development riddled with incidental complexity.

They give you everything you need, including payment, custom keyboards, embedded media, room access. But in a super straightforward simple way. It's just ridiculous how quickly you can iterate on apps that use telegram as their frontend, so much cuft is left behind.

Telegram allows you to write apps that solve real needs, in a humane way. And as a dev that gives me hope that our industry isn't lost just yet.




Yes! The APIs are really nice compared to other alternatives.


These are called super apps.


Yeah but Telegram still does less. It's not your one stop digital life that is common in the chinese app space.

Telegram is still only focused on conversational interactions, it's just darn good at it.

I'm glad that it isn't a super app because that would actually reintroduce all that complexity that they've managed to strip away.




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