Automerge is based on design decisions from 2014-2017. I remember that epoch and what everybody thought back then. The views have evolved since, but Automerge is a large project, many things have being built on top. It is unrealistic to change any of the basic assumptions at this point.

I may go into the technical details, assuming my hourly rate is respected.

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diarrhea 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Go on. I respect your hourly rate.

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petralithic 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

How is your version better?

	▲	gritzko 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's a long list. - RDX has a spec, so it can have compatible implementations. The result of a merge is specified to a bit. Automerge works the way Orion coded it (this time). - There are equivalent text and binary formats, JDR and RDX. - RDX palette of types is richer. Automerge is narrower than JSON. - RDX can work in any commodity LSM db, natively, in the core (and it does). - and so on...