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0 pointsrektide3y ago0 comments

I feel like crdts are sold as a panacea. I can esily imagine users making conflicting changes, so I dont really see or understand what the real value or weaknesses of CRDTs are.

Im also used to seeing them used for online synchronization, & far less examples of distributed crdts, which is, to me, highly important.

Git by contrast has straightforward & good merge strategies. At this point, I feel like the problems are complex & that we need complex tools that leave users & devs in charge & steering. Im so ready to be wrong, but I dont feel like these problems are outsmartable; crdts have always felt like they try to define a too limited world. For now, I feel like tools for managing files between different fs'es are more complex, but a minimum level of possibility we need.

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jka3y ago

Whether conflict-resolution can be performed automatically or may require manual input is important at scale.

Human editors may cause the content within a CRDT datastructure to become inconsistent in the sense of "is this document understandable by another person", but they can't cause conflicts that block the editing process on-disk.

On the other hand, git merges can -- and frequently do -- involve conflict resolution that isn't effectively handled -- especially in a distributed system -- by automated measures.

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