alt Hacker NewsOh yes! I had heard of pidgin but only had people use it for IRC/XMPP but I didnt know it was an universal chat client.
Yes you are absolutely correct, basically pidgin but with telegram's UI (or cinny's UI can be good too) but yea, thanks for pointing out to the resource again! I didnt know it was universal chat client, thanks for helping me know that.
You could just use libpurple to do all the im stuff and literally just write a user interface. That said, purple 2 isn't really designed for modern chat networks, but we're trying to solve that with the still unreleased purple3.
You may be interested in our State of the Birds which cover libpurple and pidgin development. https://discourse.imfreedom.org/tag/state-of-the-bird