Telegram X diventa Telegram: sarà la prima app di messaggistica in Swift

A dicembre è apparso su App Store un client alternativo per Telegram, chiamato Telegram X: la particolarità principale di quest'app (realizzata dal team di Telegram, e quindi ufficiale a tutti gli effetti) è quella di essere sviluppata in Swift, il linguaggio propietario di Apple lanciato presentato nel 2014.

Telegram X è più fluida e consuma meno batteria della versione stabile e, proprio per questo, dopo mesi di test Durov ha annunciato che questa versione scritta in Swift prenderà presto il posto del buon vecchio Telegram scritto in Objective C a cui tutti siamo abituati.

Il passaggio avverrà nel giro di una settimana o due e Durov assicura che eventuali bug minori, dovuti alla completa riscrittura del codice, saranno risolti nel minor tempo possibile.

Di seguito il messaggio completo di Pavel Durov in cui annuncia che Telegram X diventerà Telegram:

As you might have heard, for the last couple of years we’ve been quietly rebuilding Telegram for iOS from scratch with Swift – a programming language released by Apple as a faster alternative to Objective C.

The Swift version of Telegram looks exactly as the old one, but is faster, slicker and more battery-friendly than the good old Telegram (which was already great considering it outperformed other messaging apps in speed).

This new Telegram has been available for everyone to download under the name “Telegram X” since January. Thousands of users have been testing it and sharing their feedback with us, so thanks to them the app is now much more polished than a few months ago. While we are still putting some finishing touches on it, it seems that the new Telegram is ready to be shipped to every Telegram user on iOS.

That’s why within the next week or two we are planning to update the default Telegram iOS App with the Swift version. As a result, Telegram will become faster, slicker and more efficient. Since it will rely on an entirely new codebase, some minor bugs and glitches might occur, but we’ll make sure they are quickly – or should I say “swiftly” – fixed.

This change will make Telegram the most popular messaging app written fully in Swift. Some would say it’s a big risk, but I think somebody has to take such risks and be the first to implement new technologies, such as e2e encryption – or Swift.