Required reading for people building collaborative editing systems: moment.dev/blog/lies-i-was-tol

The CRDT community as a whole has a culture of hyping up their stuff without acknowledging the caveats. Because many users don't really understand what these libraries do very deeply, this marketing is causing people to adopt them without realizing what they are getting into.

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Important read if you're thinking of using CRDTs. When I looked at them a long time ago I came away with the conclusion that it was really useful tech, but conflict resolution always ends up being a problem in your business logic, not in the sync protocol.

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