Ping

A cross-platform and blazingly fast Matrix client focused on group and gaming chat.

Status: Very much a work in progress.

Goals

Discord is a fantastic chat application for communities and people who play games together. Element is an awesome open source, E2E encrypted, and decentralized Matrix client. I would like to take aspects of both of these and mix in fast start times, low memory usage, and create a great client for groups and gaming chat with easy audio/video calls.

In addition to those functional feats, I'd like to build Ping in a way that makes it relatively easy to support multiple platforms with shared code. This may be a fools errand, but it sounds like an interesting challenge! In doing so, I expect some boundaries will be pushed resulting in fixes and features upstreamed, helping the community overall.

Roadmap

Short Term (tasks that could be done in the foreseeable future)

• Basic Linux app
  • Create a user
  • Send a message to another user
  • Receive a message from another user
  • Edit a message
  • Delete a message
• Basic Windows App
  • Create a user
  • Send a message to another user
  • Receive a message from another user
  • Edit a message
  • Delete a message

Long Term (aspirational but objective setting things)

• Full fledged apps for
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • MacOS
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Web App
• App support
  • User to user chat E2EE
  • Group chat E2EE
  • Spaces with multiple channels
  • Custom emoji/reactions
  • Single click audio and/or video calls
  • Screen sharing and game broadcasting
• Other
  • Snappy start and load times
  • Low memory usage
  • Automated CI/CD with extensive testing

Development Getting Started

Installing

Install Rust and optionally Docker and Docker Compose or Podman and Podman Compose for running the test Synapse server.

Compiling

To build:

cargo build

To format and lint:

cargo fmt
cargo clippy

P.S. Using cargo watch helps to improve the experience.

Running

To start the test Synpase server, use Docker Compose or Podman Compose:

docker-compose -f containers/dev.docker-compose.yml up

podman-compose -f containers/dev.docker-compose.yml up

To stop the test Synpase server, use Docker Compose or Podman Compose:

docker-compose -f containers/dev.docker-compose.yml down

podman-compose -f containers/dev.docker-compose.yml down

Built With

• Rust
• matrix-rust-sdk

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for how to work on the project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.