[hinkley]

The tricky thing about “most” is that it means more than half, but people tend to treat it like almost all.

I would agree that git works more than half the time.

Merge resolution is a problem so hard that even otherwise capable developers fuck it up regularly. And on a large team made of people who intermittently fuck up, we start getting into and aggregate failure rate that feels like a lot.

The whole idea with CRDTs was to make something humans couldn’t fuck up, but that seems unlikely to happen. There’s some undiscovered Gödel out there who needs to tell us why.

[joakims]

I think it's just a UX problem. Once that is solved, which I believe is definitely possible, both CRDTs and git can be made much more user friendly. I'm not saying it's easy, because it hasn't been solved yet, but I don't think the right people have been working on it. UX is the domain of designers, not engineers.

[hinkley]

I think we are sitting at about 75% on one of those problems that will go asymptotic at 90%.

And that’s if you swap the default diff algorithm for one of the optional ones. I’ve used patience for years but someone tweaked it and called it “histogram” when I wasn’t looking.