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| Why CRDT didn't work out as well for collaborative editing xi-editor (github.com) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2019 | 457 points by UkiahSmith | distributed systems | original thread | | ||
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| raphlinus Nov 6, 2019 | on: CRDT: Conflict-free replicated data type | context |
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regulation_d Sep 28, 2020 | on: CRDTs are the future | context
Perhaps also of interest is Raph Levien's retrospective on the choice of CRDT as the collab technology for Xi. |
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| 1. | Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing (bottosson.github.io) | |
| recommended by 2 users | 2020 | 236 points by ingve | original thread | | ||
I think that's overstating it a bit. What I would say is that the CRDT added a lot of complexity, and we weren't able to encapsulate that complexity into an "engine" as was originally hoped.
Previous HN discussion on the mini-retrospective might be interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19886883