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I payed it with a smile. The tech is awesome and the price point for a lifetime license is beyond reasonable. I hope they get the capital to keep working on it.
Doesn't mean I don't still use vim, buts that's a different use case to me.
I'm in a very similar boat. I always avoided the Front End like the plague in jquery days. I played with Vue 1.x and liked it a lot. 2.x certainly captures my imagination I may build something beyond an API ;)
I'm disappointed that telegram wasn't on this list!
I'm curious about signal but their with service just seems to hang for me.
I use the FDA's 18f API and the Jsend standard.