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by lobster_johnson 3007 days ago
Definitely. The application is conceptually a transaction log of field/subfield patches, which would lend itself to something like an LSM, and we're looking at possible alternatives.

CRDTs could be a solution, but from what I gather they require too much context information to be viable for a text editing application. Our app currently uses something similar to OT.