On: CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video]

[toomim]

There is no formal distinction between an OT and CRDT algorithm.

It's true that the most popular OT systems have a central server -- but there exist OT algorithms without a central server.

It's also true that CRDT algorithms tend to require too much memory usage to be practical -- but there exist CRDT algorithms with bounded memory.

There are even algorithms that can be equally called OT and CRDT.