I swear, HN somehow tracks what I am doing. The last few days I also looked into CRDTs, Automerge, etc, and here we go. Happens so often, it is uncanny.

Here is a good overview article, which has pointers to other articles: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/11/265835-research-for-p...

To me it seems that while state-based CRDTs are easy to understand, operation-based CRDTs are actually what is used in practice. Furthermore, it seems to me the difference between operation-based Automerge, and operational transform (OT) is actually not that big.