Comment by zamalek
5 years ago
Dealing with text is still an active area of research for CRDTs. While the problem has been theoretically solved, the solutions require much more memory/bandwidth than OT does.[1] Conversely, CRDTs are significantly better at replicating graphs.
yjs[2] is one CRDT that handles text reasonably well, but it can still run into performance edge cases (as they plainly/honestly admit in their README).
[1]: https://github.com/automerge/automerge/issues/89 [2]: https://github.com/yjs/yjs
Have you watched the presentation referenced in the article? CRDTs have come a long way. You can get down to about a 150% increase in size over a plain text representation. Since most rich text formats store the edit history anyway, this is closer to feasible than the numbers might suggest.