Developer's Experience Building a Telegram Clone with Qt, QML, Rust, and C++
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tempodox
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Summary
A developer shares their experience attempting to create a Telegram clone using Qt, QML, Rust, and C++ over a couple of days. The article documents their journey, technical challenges, and reflections on the development process, ultimately concluding that they didn't get very far and will shelve the project to focus on other work. The content includes personal opinions about Qt/QML, comparisons to Svelte, and technical insights about the development stack.
Key quotes
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I have fond memories from 10 years ago of using Qt, and especially QML. It's just so easy to think of a design and make it happen with QML.
I chose to use Svelte for building Web Apps™ while it was still very beta just because it was the closest experience to QML I came across.
Rust is pretty great. Also been a hu
Spoilers: I didn't get very far.
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