# Automerge

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Automerge and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Developers praise its clean API across Rust, JavaScript and C and its proven convergence guarantees for collaborative apps, though critics note it requires learning CRDTs.

## What people warn about

- Hard to learn, academic setup (2 comments): "feels still way to academic in it's setup" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46091088)) "Automerge/Yjs require learning CRDTs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069808))
- Shared integration limits with Yjs (2 comments): "CRDT editor integrations (at least the ones for Yjs and Automerge) are often shockingly sloppy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409647)) "this is a limitation of certain types of CRDTs. Automerge and Yjs both work this way." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246107))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Yjs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/yjs.md): 26 recommend
- [Loro](https://hackerapproved.com/p/loro.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Automerge", https://hackerapproved.com/p/automerge/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).