The second milestone of Exerakt: a client that reads Matrix messages the way Element shows them. The interesting problems were not in drawing but in other people’s code, and every feature was checked side by side with Element.
Why Exerakt is written for Wayland only and draws its own interface instead of using a cross-platform toolkit, how this choice was checked in the first milestone, and how the result compares with Element.
Why I started Exerakt: to see how far models can get writing a real program on their own, in a structured process and without a big bill, and to get a Matrix desktop client I actually want to use.