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Comment by dboreham

Note that CRDT isn't "a thing". The CRDT paper provides a way to think about and analyze eventually consistent replication mechanisms. So CRDTs weren't "introduced", only the "CRDT way of discussing replication". Every concrete mechanism described in the CRDT paper is very old, widely used for decades beforehand.

This means that everything that implements eventual consistency (including Git) is using "a CRDT".

parent dboreham 7 months ago

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