I use the desktop app frequently and it would be great to have a modern, fast(er) app

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    I believe they will explore using the new matrix-rust-sdk in Element Web further down the line, but it isn’t a priority afaik. I’d love them to continue development of Hydrogen tho :p

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      I don’t know what hydrogen is, and none of my search terms return anything useful. Would you mind explaining what it is?

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          Like rorschah said, it’s a Matrix client, with a focus on being super lightweight and embeddable, having its own SDK. I enjoy it, since all other clients (with exception of iamb ig) use up a lot of memory on my account. Unfortunately, development has been very slow lately, and the client is missing important features like edits, text formatting and so on.

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          Just tried their demo, and they aren’t kidding about it being lightweight. Its super fast!

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      In element desktop under lab i think you can already activate the new Rust encryption (which I would not really recommend though)

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        Yeah that’s vodozemac, which is a Matrix crypto SDK written in Rust, and is part of the broader Rust SDK they are developing (which handles nesrly everything necessary for client development, even some opinionated UI stuff).