If you were wondering why there's another post about CRDTs here on hacker news, so soon after this one (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28998767" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28998767</a>) I can answer that.<p>As I was finishing up the blog post above, I started speculating on whether HN was interested in the topic. And what kind of feedback it would get, if so.<p>My experiment with Nikita's list of CRDTs resources was instructive, to say the least, particularly as I'm something of a noob here.<p>So this time I've made sure that:<p>- the post works on mobile (well, as much as I can be sure)
- I've spelled out the TLA (FLA?) in the title
- the article is more than a list. It's much more.<p>I look forward to the discussion this time!
I did a bit of work on the topic (which remains preliminary), trying to reinvent the wheel a little bit and also implementing a naive (but correct) LWW-graph structure, and I doing some light thinking around applications [1]. There is one potential application of conflict-free distributed graphs like this that would interest me to further study: distributed SLAM in robotic swarms. I would be happy to pair with someone with access and know-how around the right simulation environments to work together.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/agravier/crdt-study" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/agravier/crdt-study</a>