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burlesona ◴[] No.25058399[source]
The point about robust collaborative editing as an API is interesting. The HN crowd generally prefers native apps and gets tired of the electron parade, but for major business software it’s increasingly table stakes that another person can see what you’re working on, live, by clicking a link.

Apple does have relatively good live collaboration in its iWork apps. Perhaps there’s a future API there?

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jinjin2 ◴[] No.25058830[source]
I would have wished that Apple had been the ones acquiring Realm. They really had the best API for building apps with live collaboration I have ever experienced. Instead they went to MongoDB, so who knows how that will end?
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1. alexashka ◴[] No.25059325[source]
Realm was a dead end - it was based on a custom database, which was a mistake.

Them going to Mongo is actually the best possible outcome - by replacing their dead end custom database with MongoDB, they make MongoDB into a more compelling product, making document-based databases more batteries-included than ever before, which is excellent news.