[zzz61831]

> it's because CRDT merges aren't a good fit for the problems a code editor is trying to solve

I think you are not talking about CRDTs here. CRDTs are a pretty good fit for distributed systems that share state, which is what collaborative editing is underneath. It's just that semantically completely automatic conflict resolution is incompatible with human collaborative editing, which is pretty obvious, but for some reason plenty of research goes into trying to do just that.

[raphlinus]

I was trying to use a CRDT to share state between the GUI editor and the language server process. My attempt didn't work well, for reasons I've written about. I have no doubt it can be made to work, and the research towards that might be interesting.