The Matrix Rust SDK now provides a room list that is sorted on the client-side instead of server-side, github.com/matrix-org/matrix-r….

It has landed in Element X iOS nightly and soon on Android.

I’m going to publish blog posts to explain all the technical details but it’s really pretty neat!

#matrix #RustLang #stream #future #asynchronous

feat(ui): Client-side sorting in `RoomList` by Hywan · Pull Request #3585 · matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk

The goal of this PR is to implement client-side sorting in RoomList. So far, we used to use the sort parameter of sliding sync to sort the rooms. It is set to by_recency and by_name (see Sliding Wi...

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I wrote "Building an #Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System" today. It suggests using #DeltaChat (@delta) across an #email system that can run on non-IP networks to achieve #IM coverage without having to have an Internet backbone, using things like #NNCP, #Syncthing, #Filespooler, and such. I love the ways we can combine interesting tools like this!

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One of the ways I disagree with many of my esteemed fellow Rust people is that I think #async #RustLang is great. Switching #nextest over to #asynchronous Rust has yielded incredible dividends, including but not limited to what I described in sunshowers.io/posts/nextest-an….

The ability to write cross-platform heterogenous selects provides an extraordinary amount of power.

BTW, now that I'm at @oxidecomputer, I've been trying out nextest on #illumos and it works with zero (0) code changes!

How (and why) nextest uses tokio :: sunshowers

How my open source test runner uses async Rust.

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