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> Is it a good enough idea to sync MMO game clients and servers? After 15 years in the trenches on this stuff, no I don’t think so. Some operations need a clea
by josephg 2mo ago
> Is it a good enough idea to sync MMO game clients and servers?
After 15 years in the trenches on this stuff, no I don’t think so. Some operations need a clearly defined order for correctness. For example, financial transactions or items moving between inventories. CRDTs don’t provide this.
CRDTs are great when it makes sense for a local peer to own changes. Like Git. I think automerge and friends would make for excellent tools for making virtual worlds. For example, the recent work to integrate automerge into the Godot game engine.
- fellowniusmonk 2mo agoThank you for all your work on CRDTs, I think dt is still the coolest leap I've seen in software and frankly in thinking about the universe.