Raft advocates claimed the algorithm is simpler than Paxos and demonstrated this by teaching Paxos to one group of students and Raft to another; the Raft group reported better understanding, but a bug was later discovered in Raft that the students found more understandable than the correct version.

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Leslie Lamport

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there was a bug discovered in raft and fixed but I believe that the algorithm that they found more understandable was one with that bug.

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Turing Award Winner: Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie LamportRyan Peterman
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:17:50 PM

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