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I can't think of a CRDT / anything that can handle your example... but wouldn't this be somewhat (*not 100%) mitigated with UI? (e.g. showing carret positions

I can't think of a CRDT / anything that can handle your example... but wouldn't this be somewhat (*not 100%) mitigated with UI? (e.g. showing carret positions + time-agos of different users, asking user(s) to resolve a conflict, etc.)

tmail21 10y ago
Yes, this problem could be mitigated somewhat by showing caret positions. But this method is very reliant on the users paying extremely close attention. It does not work at all when the silent semantic errors are caused by "far flung" edits, where you don't even see the other caret because it is "off screen" for you. Asking users to resolve a conflict is not possible, because the whole idea of OT is to have no-conflict merges and would have no idea where the conflicts are.