[weinzierl]

This is an interesting insight into the educational side, but now I am curious about the implementation side. Raft is easier to implement but that's just one factor. Looking at real world usages there seems to be a draw. I could easily count as many Paxos implementations as Raft. Is this just historical or are there good reasons for a new project to still implement Oaxos?

[bfdes]

Paxos and Multi-Paxos have been around much longer than Raft. The paper that introduced Raft was published in 2014.