Comment by KirinDave
5 years ago
I don't understand why you think that writing on a very technical subject needs to build you a ladder to climb on as a prerequisite. There is a link to a very high quality talk right at the top of the article for folks who wanted to dive deeper that specifically makes that effort.
I found the article quite good, and if you had genuinely been motivated to engage with the content you could have highlighted the acronym and searched for it. There is a wealth of good info for "CRDTs" that comes up on the first page of Google, Bing or DDG.
Does the acronym actually illuminate what they are or how they function? I submit to you that it probably doesn't.
There are practices for informative writing that have been developed over decades and decades that recommend, among other things, defining initialisms on first use.
I read hundreds of pages of such writing a week and I can assure you that if this is a practice, it is not well observed by academics or engineers in the field.