[hanspagel]

I’m a bit biased, but I think 2022 will be the year of Y.js.

What we’ve done or set up for the next year:

* The Y-Collective to fund more and more related projects, like slate-yjs: https://opencollective.com/y-collective

* The Hocuspocus backend you've discovered, which will become public in April or so

* A cloud offering we’re bootstrapping to hopefully get even more money into the ecosystem

* Y.js core support for the Tiptap editor (900k downloads/month), with a lot more advanced features coming next year

* More and more frontend libraries, like SyncedStore which was on the frontpage a few days ago: https://syncedstore.org/docs/

* The Y.js Rust port: https://github.com/yjs/y-crdt

Exciting times!

[samwillis]

I agree with Hans, we are going to see an explosion of collaborative tools next year. And Yjs is best placed to enable them.

The ecosystem around Yjs with the Y-collective is so impressive.

[mlajtos]

CRDTs (and Y.js especially) will deliver what Google Wave promised. Not as a single unifying UI for communication, rather all existing apps can get collaborative power where it makes sense. And that is a game changer for me – as a user and developer. Exciting times indeed!

[adeptima]

I’m biased into Yjs too and bet on it. Yjs Rust port and other simply not ready for the prime and won’t be for a while. Bindings and unsafe Rust is the road to hell

[melony]

How do the performance and features of Yjs compare to Automerge?

[samwillis]

https://github.com/dmonad/crdt-benchmarks

Not completely up to date I believe but it shows that Yjs significantly outperforms automerge.

[adeptima]

It will depend on your use cases. Better to check updated roadmaps too. The final gap won’t be too big IMHO