From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A new collaborative editing package (maybe tangent)
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 19:54:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D2DC7AB5-F4CC-4326-9A24-D7B6754EF713@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1rKKY9-00051O-Im@fencepost.gnu.org>
> On Jan 1, 2024, at 7:49 AM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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>> Since you're using OT anyway, I wonder if eventually it can be
>> compatible with Etherpad, which I believe is also OT not CRDT.
>
> Could you explain what OT and CRDT mean?
>
> First of all, are they nouns, or adjectives?
> The first line uses OT as a noun, the second as an adjective.
They are the two main approaches to designing algorithms for collaborative editing. OT stands for operational transformation, CRDT stands for conflict-free replicated data type. They are different enough that when designing a collab editing system, you need to choose one or another.
Yuan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-02 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-30 4:22 A new collaborative editing package (maybe tangent) Yuan Fu
2023-12-30 5:28 ` Karl Fogel
2023-12-30 10:56 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-01-02 3:16 ` Richard Stallman
2023-12-30 19:49 ` Yuan Fu
2023-12-31 15:33 ` T.V Raman
2024-01-01 4:35 ` Yuan Fu
2024-01-01 15:49 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-02 3:54 ` Yuan Fu [this message]
2024-01-05 4:22 ` Richard Stallman
2023-12-30 8:56 ` Aw: " Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-12-30 20:09 ` Yuan Fu
2024-01-01 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-01 4:53 ` Yuan Fu
2024-01-01 23:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-02 3:45 ` Yuan Fu
2024-01-04 3:59 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-04 8:02 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2024-01-05 0:33 ` Yuan Fu
2024-01-06 4:33 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-06 7:14 ` Yuan Fu
2024-01-08 3:48 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-09 2:49 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-06 4:33 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-06 7:17 ` Yuan Fu
2024-01-08 3:48 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-07 4:28 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-07 4:28 ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-07 7:06 ` Yuan Fu
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