I started trying to build a non-PHP Wiki for a hobby, and the notion that I was going to have to implement my own version control on top of it stymied me, so CRDTs looked good to me when I first started to get familiar with the idea.
Trac (project management) does some stuff behind the scenes stored in svn, which it uses for edit history. I always liked that idea. Why have two? I have wished for some time that someone did a Trac for git. I just don't want to be the one to write it.
I've also wished for some time that someone would make a new git, not designed by barbarian cannibals, potentially based on CRDTs.
Somehow these notions melted together and now making progress hinges on whether there's a CRDT out there that's up to the task of managing source code - and written in a language I can handle. So far those two haven't appeared, and based on the number of corner cases I've heard described when I watch lectures on CRDTs, I'm pretty sure if I tried to write one myself I'd never see daylight again, but might see the inside of a padded room. Do you think it's safe to say we're still in the distillation phase of invention where CRDT's are concerned? Is this accidental complexity we are seeing or is most of it intrinsic?
I'm instead spending a lot of my free time on the hobby instead of on writing collaborative tools and/or accidentally writing a Trac replacement.
Trac (project management) does some stuff behind the scenes stored in svn, which it uses for edit history. I always liked that idea. Why have two? I have wished for some time that someone did a Trac for git. I just don't want to be the one to write it.
I've also wished for some time that someone would make a new git, not designed by barbarian cannibals, potentially based on CRDTs.
Somehow these notions melted together and now making progress hinges on whether there's a CRDT out there that's up to the task of managing source code - and written in a language I can handle. So far those two haven't appeared, and based on the number of corner cases I've heard described when I watch lectures on CRDTs, I'm pretty sure if I tried to write one myself I'd never see daylight again, but might see the inside of a padded room. Do you think it's safe to say we're still in the distillation phase of invention where CRDT's are concerned? Is this accidental complexity we are seeing or is most of it intrinsic?
I'm instead spending a lot of my free time on the hobby instead of on writing collaborative tools and/or accidentally writing a Trac replacement.