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by n0w 653 days ago
CRDTs seem to give the best experience when they correctly model the "intent" of changes.

But a diff between two different states of raw text can't convey the intent of a code change (beyond very simple changes).

This is why I think CRDTs haven't caught on for VCSes and I'm not sure they _could_ without some kind of structured editing.