[pvh]

Please accept my unreserved apologies, Heather! No offense is intended. I can speak for everyone working on Automerge when I say that we've very much appreciated Matthew's work and have indeed spent quite a lot of time studying and responding to it. We spoke about it in person last week, in fact.

As for the use-cases, I do not mean to exclude live collaboration from consideration, just to note that it hasn't been our focus or come up often in the use-cases we study. Live meeting notes are definitely a real use-case and I don't dispute the performance results you show.

As for Y-js, it's a wonderful piece of software with excellent performance and a vibrant community made by exceptional people like Kevin Jahns. We simply have slightly different goals in our work, which undoubtedly reflect where our engineering investments lie.

Indeed, your paper did not measure the same things we look at, and that's why it found new results. Hopefully in time we will join the other systems in performing well on your benchmarks as well.

[genuine_smiles]

> We simply have slightly different goals in our work, which undoubtedly reflect where our engineering investments lie.

I’d love to hear more about this. Do you elaborate anywhere?

[neftaly]

I have been writing a video game using automerge-repo for networking & save files. I researched Yjs and Automerge and felt that Yjs is better suited to an ongoing session like a conference call, whereas automerge is better suited for network partitions etc. This fit my use-case best. My opinion might be out-of-date as this area is moving quickly, and there are quite a few options out there now.