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So CRDTs are the future, but what about today for real, production products? I'm just about to really dive into collaborative editing features for our product,

So CRDTs are the future, but what about today for real, production products? I'm just about to really dive into collaborative editing features for our product, and OT still seems to me to be a much safer bet unless you're dealing with a more obscure environment.

omgtehlion 6y ago
Yes, starting with OT looks easy. You can make 99% work in almost no time. But the last 1% will bite you in the rear really hard... Actually, CRDT is not a single data structure or even algorithm. It is a term for several families of data structures and different algorithms on them. If your task is not editing text, you may find a simple and already implemented CRDT for your case.
toomim 6y ago
> So CRDTs are the future, but what about today for real, production products? Try Y.js: https://github.com/yjs/yjs https://github.com/yjs/yjs