[nicodemus26]

I think CRDTs would make much more sense in a projectional editor than a text one. When the changes are mutations to the abstract syntax tree its more well defined how a merge would end. Also, the merge results don't have the opportunity to be invalid syntax.

[msvan]

It is really crazy that we go through these massive hoops to simulate what would be trivial to do in an AST editor. I recently read through some of the literature on projectional editors, and while they have historically had some usability issus I really hope that this will change in the future.