On: How Prosody developers spent 2020

[kitkat_new]

> and XMPP server is featherweight compared to Matrix due to their different nature

I agree that Synapse, the only currently available Matrix server is resource heavy, but I would not extrapolate this to the future of Matrix servers.

There is still quite some optimization possible.

[swsieber → kitkat_new]

Dendrite is the next big thing right? Written in Rust? I'd be curious to see how the performance is there with it being in Rust and a rewrite/new implementation that can learn from experience.

[remram → swsieber]

If popular rooms still can't be joined without consuming gigabytes of RAM then, I will probably give up on Matrix altogether.

Also Dendrite is Go, not Rust.

[pmlnr → remram]

I've been trying Dendrite for a few days: a single user in the system - me -, being in two, federated, medium (<1k) sized rooms on matrix.org, the memory usage runs between 250MB to 1.5GB.

[remram → pmlnr]

I'm going to give Prosody a serious look then, thanks for the feedback.

[MattJ100 → remram]

If you have any questions, we're friendly, feel free to reach out! :)

https://prosody.im/discuss

[swsieber → remram]

> Also Dendrite is Go, not Rust.

Ah, my bad. Thanks.

[feanaro → swsieber]

Conduit is the Rust implementation: https://conduit.rs/