The Hard Problem of Collaborative Undo-Redo

Some smart people don't think that conflicts are a big deal in multiplayer systems. Adam Wiggins (co-founder of Heroku) for example, dismissed it in this part of his recent talk (not in the context of undo/redo but as a general concern). He was later challenged about it by a question from the audience at this timestamp but stood his ground. To summarise his reasoning: Users stay out of each others' way - it's a social thing (true). Also, when conflicts do occur, users are smart enough to realise what happened and fix it themselves, no big deal. He does note that this is true for the app he's creating (Muse), but might not apply in all cases.

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Visual Studio Code

In web applications or desktop applications that supports multiple tabs (e.g., VSCode), a session equals a single tab.

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