Not sure "written in Rust" is a headline thing that's worth mentioning anymore. Particularly amusing in this case when parts of Discord are written in Rust too.
Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
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Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both are planned features
Do you have any plans for capturing game audio on Windows and Linux? It's very annoying to have to boot into Windows if I want to stream a game with audio to some friends.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#53Not sure "written in Rust" is a headline thing that's worth mentioning anymore. Particularly amusing in this case when parts of Discord are written in Rust too.
> One thing that makes me appreciate it even more is the fact that it's written in rust without the authors trying to make it into a primary selling point, which is annoyingly common in these days("X written in rust").
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me I think “written in Rust”actually does add a lot. It is a signal that this will be easy to build, easy to deploy (because it is compiled into a single binary in general), memory safe, and likely to be written by a someone that cares about performance and efficiency. I think those are all valuable hints.
> memory safe That's an incorrect assumption if you haven't audited the code. > likely to be written by a someone that cares about performance and efficiency Ah, the stamp of approval that comes from signalling to the "right people". Reminds me of the preamble to almost every C++ Boost library -- "written with performance in mind".
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#55Not sure "written in Rust" is a headline thing that's worth mentioning anymore. Particularly amusing in this case when parts of Discord are written in Rust too.
On anything you can self-run it's a very useful qualifier. Personally I ignore anything that says "written in Node" because I don't want those headaches.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#56how about a discord-compatible backend?
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#57How does it compare to matrix? Would have been nice to use that since it’s an open protocol that already takes privacy seriously
My question, maybe a bit more meta - is why not instead work on features for matrix and a client like element? As if the world needs yet another slack-like. xkcd_15_competing_standards.png
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#58it's not written in Rust, it is written in Typescript the backend is written in Rust if you use Discord, you don't care about the backend, it doesn't run on your machine This is something i notice about rust users, they promote "written in Rust" more than the products Very bad marketing
I'd wager that in general the crowd frequenting this site are much more interested in what the back-end / protocol is written in than what the web app is.
Solutions should solve a problem. Tech demos should demonstrate tech.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#59Instead of yet another app/platform, why not Matrix protocol?
Plus the likely value here is largely the client, so you can consider reusing, or at least building on top of an existing matrix server.
Re: Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
#60Also, the scrollbar on roadmap page in desktop Vivaldi version doesn't seem to be doing anything.