Xi editor seems so cool. I keep thinking I should try it sometime. And I didn’t even know it made use of CRDT. But every time I think to myself I should install it I just keep the tab open but don’t actually do it. Even though I use Vim and I write some Rust code myself, so you’d think I should check out Xi, and I think I should too but I just still haven’t. I’ve watched a lengthy talk from its author even, and I think that talk was nice too. Does what I am describing have a name?

I feel similarly.

I’m a heavy vim user myself, and while Xi intrigues me, I think the knowledge that I would lose my very personal vim configuration which is years in the making dissuades me.

This is probably an indication that I’ve gone a bit too far with my vimrc....

Another really cool project that makes use of CRDTs for collaborative editing is xray from the folks who worked on Atom:

https://github.com/atom/xray#text-is-stored-in-a-copy-on-wri...