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The problem with BYOC client for Google docs / Figma is that the underlying data isn't simple plaintext, it's too complex, and the protocol requires things like
by marmada 6y ago
The problem with BYOC client for Google docs / Figma is that the underlying data isn't simple plaintext, it's too complex, and the protocol requires things like operational transforms, so BYOC wouldn't make sense.
- karlicoss 6y agoClients don't have to have exact same power. For example it would totally make sense to grep over a google doc represented as a plaintext file. Or at least traverse over the complex structure to extract some data, even if it's read only.