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I'm slowly getting nerd-sniped into writing a native matrix client in rust/iced or rust/gtk

I'm not sure if I'm up for the challenge...

The idea is to separate the app into two parts, a daemon that actually handles the core matrix business, and the UI client that communicates via IPC

The daemon can persist in the background and service notifs etc, while the UI client would be as stateless as possible. IPC can be done via anything, but I'm thinking JSON over a unix socket (are there better methods for IPC?)

Another thing I'm thinking of for the UI client is to be absolutely keyboard driven (vim keybinds go brrr, command menu with `:` near the top go brr (yes VSCode got that right))

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#matrix #UI #rust #MatrixClients #iced #gtk #programming

@JakobBoos #Signal, #Matrixclients, #Threema usw. Die wären alle um Klassen vertrauenswürdiger.

Switched from #schildichat to #neochat on my computer today.

Honestly the KDE UI looks so good in NeoChat :kdenew:

Sometimes using a native app after using electron app for a while just feels so refreshing lol

#UI #Election #Matrix #MatrixClients #foss