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Practical Intro to Operational Transformation

36 pointsby casouri11/26/20253 commentsview on HN

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toomimtoday at 4:38 AM

This paper does a good job relating OT and CRDT as the two major approaches to collaborative editing.

For anyone interested in this topic, I'm publishing a new theory on this called Collapsing Time Machines: https://braid.org/meeting-111.

auggierosetoday at 3:11 AM

> Even though ot do is simple, ot undo is very complicated and inefficient. We’ll expand on this later sections. Undo in crdt is simple and can be handled as normal operations.

Not so sure about that. Undo in OT seems simpler to me than undo in CRDT.

jasonjmcgheetoday at 12:12 AM

Just want to say- very pleasant blog from a typographical and design standpoint.

Edit: Looks like you made the font yourself, very cool.