telegram desktop is open-source and even has published working desktop code with Visual Studio?
Telegram Desktop uses Qt, Miranda uses pure C++, but that's not the problem as they have open API
https://core.telegram.org/api#telegram-apiSo what? Where is telegram plugin?
But what are you trying to say? That if some protocol has open API or implementation, that it should automatically appear in Miranda?
Do you understand developing any new protocol (or any plugin) for Miranda is not just copy & paste code and that it actually takes fair amount of time to understand, implement, test and support it?
And you don't need only dev(s). You need dev(s) interested in this particular plugin/protocol to spent his time on it.
As I can see on
https://www.openhub.net/p/mirandang we have 23 active contributors, from which around 8 are (more or less active) developers. So Miranda NG is not dead or dying at all. Our devs are just focused on other plugins/protocols than WhatsApp or Telegram.
If we want more or faster bugfixes/features/protocols supported, then we need more devs. And everyone is welcome to join and start