thomastay

  {- Need to generate a lot of users?
  
     Use the `generate` function from the Dhall Prelude
  -}
  
  let generate = https://prelude.dhall-lang.org/List/generate
  
  {- You can import Dhall expressions from URLs that support
     CORS
  
     The command-line tools also let you import from files,
     environment variables, and URLs without CORS support.
  
     Browse https://prelude.dhall-lang.org for more utilities
  -}
  
  let makeUser = \(user : Text) ->
        let home       = "/home/${user}"
        let privateKey = "${home}/.ssh/id_ed25519"
        let publicKey  = "${privateKey}.pub"
        in  { home, privateKey, publicKey }
  
  let buildUser = \(index : Natural) ->
        {- `Natural/show` is a "built-in", meaning that
           you can use `Natural/show` without an import
        -}
        makeUser "build${Natural/show index}"
  
  let Config =
        { home : Text
        , privateKey : Text
        , publicKey : Text
        }
  
  in  {- Try generating 20 users instead of 10 -}
      generate 10 Config buildUser

  The /sync API returns events in an order "according to the arrival time of the event on the homeserver".

  The spec for /messages says it returns events "in chronological order. (The exact definition of chronological is dependent on the server implementation.)".