Great improvements, performance was probably the major concern of automerge prev versions, I have begin reading about CRDTs and this is the correct movement field at the moment.
Local first in my mind means your users can still work even if your server is down for a small amount of time for any reason, which means the users can also jump on an airplane and decide to review/update their price table or check out their sales commissions if they want.
It benefits both sides of the software economy (users and providers)[1].
I recommend the reading the paper from 2019 about local first it is not too academic and gives a good view of the challenges [2].
Local first in my mind means your users can still work even if your server is down for a small amount of time for any reason, which means the users can also jump on an airplane and decide to review/update their price table or check out their sales commissions if they want. It benefits both sides of the software economy (users and providers)[1].
I recommend the reading the paper from 2019 about local first it is not too academic and gives a good view of the challenges [2].
[1] https://mateusfreira.github.io/@mateusfreira-2022-12-04-my-t... [2] https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/local-first.pdf