@trysttrystimuli
@esoterrarobin yeah CRDTs are a notoriously bad idea for longer-wait sync. Sync is a very hard problem in general and there’s no silver bullet. You topically want to combine approaches and do it very carefully.
@janlJan Lehnardt
and his colleagues have entire fantastic posts and talks about this that are really educational
@zkatkat
@trysttrystimuli
@esoterrarobin
I have opinions!
First: thank you for the kind words <3 — Some of the writeup mentioned starts here https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/04/06/how-to-sync-anything (ama)
On local-first the paper & movement:
- they have roughly the same goals as we did when we started offline-first in 2013 (https://alistapart.com/article/offline-first/ I coined the term with Alex, who wrote the intro).
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