GOgoranmoomin·Apr 25, 2025Submission
Forked: Local-first Swift data types with CRDT-based merging
1 points · Open discussiondrewmccormack
Forked
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drewmccormack / Forked
Forked
It's like Git for your Swift data types.
5Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
484GitHub stars
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What it is
It's like Git for your Swift data types.
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Where it is used
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
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Observed mentions: 2024-12-16 21:42:20 UTC to 2025-04-25 00:21:20 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Dec 16 | 2024-12-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-12-23 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Dec 23 | 2024-12-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-12-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 30 | 2024-12-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 6 | 2025-01-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 13 | 2025-01-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 20 | 2025-01-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 27 | 2025-01-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-02-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 3 | 2025-02-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-02-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 10 | 2025-02-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-02-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 17 | 2025-02-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-02-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 24 | 2025-02-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 3 | 2025-03-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 10 | 2025-03-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 17 | 2025-03-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24 | 2025-03-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 31 | 2025-03-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 7 | 2025-04-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-14 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 14 | 2025-04-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 21 | 2025-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesAre there plans to add support in your client libraries like https://github.com/supabase/supabase-swift?
And could this be used as backend support for https://github.com/drewmccormack/Forked?
In Show HN: Pg_CRDT – CRDTs in Postgres Using AutomergeAll I could find was this implementation: https://github.com/drewmccormack/Forked/blob/daa1082ca0f8d4f...
Beyond that, how does manual conflict resolution work, if it’s even possible? Git and the galaxy of tooling around it can’t handle all conflicts automatically.
In Now We're All ForkedFor me it works with JS disabled on the page: "TLDR; I’m launching a new Swift framework called Forked¹ for working with shared data, both on a single device, and across many."
¹https://github.com/drewmccormack/Forked
In Now We're All Forked