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There is interest from the Erlang community. Etylizer is a set-theoretic type checker developed for Erlang. We have different objectives, though, as we try to remain backwards compatible with the existing type specs. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12783.pdf
Re:CRDTs are the future on Monday September 28, 2020 @06:05PM (#24621724)
It is wonderful to see so much enthusiasm about this technology. I have been working on CRDTs since 2012 and it has been quite a ride.

For those looking for more information, have a look at the information collected at http://crdt.tech/ (Disclaimer: I am involved, though Martin did the bulk load of the work.)

If you are into CRDTs for collaborative gaming, we are looking for partners and investors: https://concordant.io (Disclaimer: I am technical advisor in its team.)

Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @06:32PM (#22650792)
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Re:Antidote: CRDT-based distributed database on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:55PM (#15874719)
[Disclaimer: I am an Antidote maintainer]

Some CRDTs support garbage collection directly - if you run them in a causally consistent environment. Antidote is causally consistent and has a Set and Map implementation that work like this; for these CRDTs you don't need a global sync.

Re:Antidote: CRDT-based distributed database on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:27PM (#15864659)
This is what we actually do. I checked a couple of weeks ago with Heinz, but there wasn't a version available (but maybe I misunderstood him...).

Can you point me to an Erlang 20 compatible version?

Re:Antidote: CRDT-based distributed database on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:21PM (#15864601)
(one of the maintainers of Antidote)

There is a lot of research still going on in the back, including indexing, access control, verification tools for apps, and some other really cool stuff.

Efficient support for queries is non-trivial, indeed.

Re:Antidote: CRDT-based distributed database on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:15PM (#15864561)
We tried a couple of weeks back, but then most dependencies have not been upgraded yet. The problem is that, to my knowledge, there is no riak_core for Erlang 20.