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What is this? I can't figure it out from the homepage. What kinds of projects might this be useful for? What does it... provide?
by tekknolagi 8y ago
What is this? I can't figure it out from the homepage. What kinds of projects might this be useful for? What does it... provide?
- zzzcpan 8y agoRuntime and libraries for creating distributed applications on top of conflict-free replicated data types. For projects that have to share state between multiple nodes.
- macintux 8y agoThis paper is a pretty good introduction to CRDTs: https://hal.inria.fr/file/index/docid/397981/filename/RR-6956.pdf https://hal.inria.fr/file/index/docid/397981/filename/RR-695... Eventual consistency is a powerful idea that allows you to work around the challenges of keeping data in sync across a distributed platform, but has historically required significant effort on the part of developers to implement (and is easy to get wrong). Lasp is an attempt to solve that problem.