Ruma VS matrix-rust-sdk

Compare Ruma vs matrix-rust-sdk and see what are their differences.

Ruma

A set of Rust crates for interacting with the Matrix chat network. (by ruma)

matrix-rust-sdk

Matrix Client-Server SDK for Rust (by matrix-org)
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Ruma matrix-rust-sdk
5 15
637 1,453
1.6% 4.0%
9.7 10.0
2 days ago about 22 hours ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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Ruma

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ruma. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-19.

matrix-rust-sdk

Posts with mentions or reviews of matrix-rust-sdk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-02.
  • Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2025
    Telegram certainly has an excellent UI/UX. On the Element side, its quality bar has very much been the target for Element X - and (in my biased opinion) we are getting very close, if not exceeding it in some places. For instance, we just landed The Event Cache in Element X and matrix-rust-sdk (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/issues/3280 - closed 2 days ago after a year of solid work), which provides seamless offline support and local encrypted-at-rest caching of the messages it's seen, which in turn then makes the native SwiftUI and jetpack-compose UIs go brrrrrr.
  • Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't find $100K
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2025
    iOS.

    I suspect you are hitting perf issues on Android due to lack of caching (which bite Android way more than iOS due to JNA being way slower for calling the rust-sdk than Swift’s rust bindings). This should be fixed by https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/issues/3280, which as you can see from all the checkboxes is making progress.

  • Flutter seems to be having bad times internally
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Nov 2023
    Yep, a good example is the element X rewrite

    They use Jetpack on Android

    https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-android

    And SwiftUI on iOS

    https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-ios

    But both use the same underlying Matrix Rust SDK

    https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk

    So they share the core part of the app between platforms, but everything user facing is native

  • Crux: Cross-platform app development in Rust
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2023
  • I made a crate: eyeball – Add observability to your Rust types!
    1 project | /r/rust | 15 Mar 2023
    The one place eyebal is already being used is matrix-rust-sdk, mostly for bits of the API that act as a model for specific UI parts in apps built on top of it. A part of those APIs is also using observable vectors from eyeball-im, which I didn't mention initially because it's not as well-documented and polished.
  • Collaborative WYSIWYG document editor built-on matrix-rust-sdk and matrix-rich-text-editor?
    2 projects | /r/matrixdotorg | 15 Feb 2023
    Hello everyone, I am finally making it to all of the great talks about Matrix from FOSDEM 23, and one thing that seemed like an obvious thing that could be built on some of the new projects works (matrix-rich-text-editor, matrix-rust-sdk) is a collaborative (multi-user, live edits) document tool built ontop of rust. That said, I haven't seen any project doing this yet. Does anyone know of one?
  • Matrix 2.0 — Matthew Hodgson talks about Rust in Element client, Rust SDK, IETF MLS, MIMI and more
    7 projects | /r/rust | 7 Feb 2023
    Another important piece of the ecosystem for which Rust was used is the SDK. This new SDK was used to write the newest mobile client - Element X. The current Element client will also see its cryptography implementation being changed from Javascript to Rust, this was also made possible by the new Rust based SDK.
  • Some key-value storage engines in Rust
    12 projects | /r/rust | 27 Dec 2022
    Let's say I'll switch as soon as they start using Sanakirja. They're partially right in their analysis of Sanakirja, but their comments are more about the lack of expressiveness of the unsafe keyword in Rust than about Sanakirja itself. I'm preparing a blog post about my dream version of unsafe.
  • IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Nov 2022
    >Well I care, that does not mean that you have to care.

    The point I'm making is that the protocol being implement-able by yourself or grabbing a lib from someone else is moot, since you will 9 times out of 10 use a library.

    >Again, look at the lack of client diversity for Matrix and tell me that you do not think that there is at least some correlation in terms of the complexity of the protocol.

    The problem is not client diversity for Matrix - there's plenty of them. The problem is that Matrix is more than displaying a log on a screen, and most of the clients are frankly abysmal and could use a trained UI/UX owner.

    >last I checked it meant using either Python or Go

    The Rust SDK has worked well for me, although I can't state how close it is to Python or Go's libs. That said, I know I'm certainly not the only one using it.

    The Rust lib could be wrapped into other languages (e.g, Ruby) if there's not a good SDK for that language. I don't really consider this to be an issue, especially considering the Rust SDK is maintained by the Matrix org themselves.

    https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk

    >Add to this that the more mandatory features you have and keep adding

    Don't maintain your own bespoke library and you won't have to. :)

    >But I am not going to behave as if images, reactions, code blocks, threads, end-to-end encryption, voice calls, video calls, etc. do not come at a cost.

    They do come at a cost, but that's the price of admission for what people expect from modern chat systems. I'd rather live in 2022 than 2004, and I grew up on IRC.

  • Back to School: Free Rust Courses
    7 projects | /r/rust | 27 Aug 2022
    I'm not entirely sure what I plan to use Rust with at the moment, however my first project so far has been to write a Matrix bot using the matrix-rust-sdk library :)

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