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Re:You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience by asib on Thursday November 16, 2023 @05:25PM (#38296490)
> ...based on causal order which is convergent, the C in CRDT...

Doesn't the C stand for conflict-free? I suppose both are kind of getting at the same idea though.

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Re:You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience by mweidner on Saturday November 18, 2023 @11:31AM (#38321276)
Early papers (e.g. https://inria.hal.science/inria-00555588) use C=Convergent for state-based CRDTs and C=Commutative for op-based CRDTs. Nowadays it is usually C=Conflict-free for all variants (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRDT).

You could add to the confusion by using C=Collaborative. (I personally prefer "collaborative data structures" for the more general concept of data structures that can be edited on multiple devices; CRDT is a mouthful and now also a buzzword.)

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