Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++
This was a fun project for a couple of days, but I will probably shelve it for now so I can continue what I was already working on before. Read on to follow along with my journey. Spoilers: I didn’t get very far. Get ready for an Opinion Dump of an intro: 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 huge fan of that since like 2012 when I saw an example on the front page where the compiler validated pointer usage at compile time without adding any extra work at run time. Basically black magic after trying to fix the…
