@xoron Does it have to be compiled to WASM?
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fraid so. i would prefer to avoid it, but it seemed nessesary. i had an older version of it that was using the js primitives from the browser, but the issue there was that crypto primitives were not always provided by the browsers and different browsers have their only roadmap for supporting it.
so rust to wasm was a reliable way to get the crypto primitives needed. that was how it was done on several other projects including the official signal one.
@xoron Yes I understand that, I was more wondering if it couldn't have been a more general library which could compile to x86 or ARM?
i havent considered those compile targets. i supose it could be done. is there not something already out there? my version is created specifically for the browser environment.
i think it would be better to start off with the official version and take it from there.
Perhaps useful, so just bringing it up. The #Makepad team are in their presentations always particularly proud in how they make #Rust builds in mere seconds across the full range of compile targets. They make builds after live coding *during* the presentation. Perhaps some of their methods to achieve this are applicable for you. Other than that, watching a recent Makepad presentation is inspiring, as their project is an impressive feat.
Btw, #Robrius uses Makepad and perhaps has similar approach to compiles, idk really. It is another cool initiative, who build #Robrix a matrix client with their app framework.
Other than that, some musings..
Your project looks very nice. Kudos! However, the past couple years I've probably seen a quadrillion instant messenger projects pass by. The screenshot on the website is "yet another familiar IM chat UI".
But if I just read your tagline of "Decentralized #P2P encrypted messaging" and I close my eyes a bit, I can picture 'universal messaging' and see something very powerful.
In #ActivityPub conceptual architecture this exists in theory, but the #fediverse diverges from that. In #XMPP and #Matrix protocol realms you hear people say "you can build any social networking use case with the protocol", but then all the documentation and discussions relate narrowly to IM and some of the hardwired abstractions assume IM (like Room in matrix).
With universal messaging I might be empowered with https://eventmodeling.org and https://eventcatalog.dev like solution design, using SDK's on top of a robust p2p protocol component. To model IM and more.
