telebot VS Odin

But then it's hard to imagine much better than the existing Telebot library, which is a very elegant and idiomatic Go.

https://github.com/tucnak/telebot

I use https://github.com/tucnak/telebot, which has been a joy to work with. It'd take a bit of time to decouple my actual business logic from the bot portions of my code so I can't share that, but it isn't far off from the examples within the README on that repo.

I understand that it is possible to initialise a WebApp opened from Telegram using either a menu or inline button. Ideally I want to provide the Telegram client's contact list to the WebApp. If anyone can provide an example of how to do that I would be very grateful. I'm using the https://github.com/tucnak/telebot API for Go but if there is a better API in another language that anyone recommends I'd be happy to use that.

Created bot credentials using BotFather For integration with Telegram, I found a bot framework for Go - Telebot The setup was pretty easy:

We are ready to start the implementation. We'll be using the Telebot Go library. Telebot is a framework that is going help us a lot interacting with the Telegram Bot API (setting up the bot, handling requests, sending messages, etc).

There's also Odin[0] too. I tried using them all and Odin was pretty nice. Nim is also good too but a lot more features.

But - I concluded that language matters a lot less compared to APIs. Yes, the language should have enough good features to let the programmers express themselves, but overall well designed APIs matter a lot more than language. For example -tossing most of the C stdlib and following a consistent coding style (similar to one described here -[1]), with using Arenas for memory allocation, I can be just as productive in C.

[0] - https://odin-lang.org

I highly recommend looking at:

* The Overview: <https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/>

* examples/demo: <https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin/blob/master/examples/demo/...>

As for the first example: a basic lexing example is probably boring, but it does show some basic ideas of what the language is about. If people want to write better examples or just reorder the current ones, please feel free to make an issue or PR on the website's GitHub page: <https://github.com/odin-lang/odin-lang.org>.

I use Odin primarily, it’s C-level but pascal/Go syntax and inspiration https://odin-lang.org/

Website: https://odin-lang.org/

Get it from the website: https://odin-lang.org/ -- Odin includes bindings to popular gamedev libraries & APIs such as Raylib, SDL, DirectX, OpenGL and Vulkan.