irmin-js

Indeed, Irmin is a library to implement data stores which can be freely cloned, updated and merged along a model similar to git. It separates the content from the actual store. So it can run as well on a file-system, on a git repository, in memory or in the browser (See for instance https://github.com/talex5/irmin-js). As git, Irmin uses 3-way merge but applied to arbitrary values and not only files. As described here http://gazagnaire.org/pub/FGM15.pdf and generalized here https://kcsrk.info/papers/oopsla19-mrdt.pdf

Like most OCaml libraries, Irmin can be used in the browser by compiling your program with js_of_ocaml. My `irmin-js` experiment provides a Javascript API to Irmin, so you can write your application in Javascript too, rather than OCaml. My JS isn't very good though; here's what my example code ended up looking like: https://github.com/talex5/irmin-js/blob/master/examples/test...

From your description I'm not quite sure where in the stack Irmin belongs? Is this to be used by web application developers? I assume note, as this looks like it is targeting more OS level development work? Pretty cool stuff. I am also working on a distributed database, https://github.com/amark/gun , that operates at the high level (web/javascript) rather than the low level. Although it looks like Irmin can be used in the browser? https://github.com/talex5/irmin-js ? Would love to hear some clarification.