Re: A new collaborative editing package (maybe tangent)

[Yuan Fu]

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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