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Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
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Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#32It warms my old heart when projects use the AGPL (or GPL) licence. It's a "small" thing to do that tells me that you're not just waiting for VC but actually really care about your work and the world. (I'm not saying that MIT or other similar licences are used exclusively by people that don't care, I understand that sometimes you just don't have the bandwidth)
I don’t understand where you’re saying. A/GPL generally just means corporate won’t use your solution, and that others won’t integrate and as such, monetize your solution. You can still be VC funded and monetize your own GPL code yourself? The Zed editor is a great example.
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Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#33two people sit in front of same laptop: solved and for decades
Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#34I could see using this for creating ASCII art collaboratively.
Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#35Much appreciate seeing the huge wave of new local-first libraries/tools ! Maybe someone can explain how this compares to other solutions like y.js or automerge ?
Gladly! Automerge on its own is just a library that makes local-first data structures possible.
Ethersync uses this library for a concrete purpose: Collaborating on local text files. We wrote editor plugins and a daemon that runs on your computer, to enable you to type in plaintext files/source code together, from the editors you already know.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
Re: Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files
#36This reminds me of Floobits (started around 2013) that offered cross-editor collaboration using centralized servers. It had plugins for Emacs, Vim, Sublime, and others.
Possibly more similar to Etherpad (2008) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etherpad