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Collaborative editing is not something you can just bolt on after the fact if you want it to actually work well. Things like building a robust server that can be exposed to the internet can certainly wait, but how you are you supposed to develop a plugin ecosystem when you haven't even settled on a conceptual model for how to store and manipulate text yet?



>Collaborative editing is not something you can just bolt on after the fact if you want it to actually work well.

Yes, but my comment also alludes to the opinion that "well working collaborative editing" is not a real problem people have, and a much easier (and easier to bolt on) use case, of consecutive (serialized with "locks") collaborative editing should cover most people's needs...




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