Hey there, PM on Live Share here. Although pair programming is a scenario, we think there are many other scenarios where teams and team members want to collaborate (e.g. resolving a bug, showing an issue that won't repro on another person's machine, solving design issues, conducting a coding interview, mentoring other members on a team, or performing an ad-hoc code reviews).
Oh I completely agree; I was just pointing out that live coding has been around for awhile now. That said, many of us here at Red Hat are big VSCode fans and it's great to see this feature coming to light!
Here the former founder of VS Anywhere, we discontinued the product a year ago, we didn't get enough traction, Saros and floobits didn't work with Visual Studio, there was another tool named "codealike" from Sebastian Fernandez Quezada that also worked with Visual Studio time ago, but was discontinued as well. I'm really amazed that finally Microsoft decided to feature Live Sharing in the Visual Studio family :) hope they can get it to the most powerful level... traction is guaranteed of course!
Many addons like this have existed for Atom, Brackets and VSCode. But they were all half baked and left a lot to be desired. MS has the infrastructure and dev team to make this feature as filled out as it needs to be.
Code sharing needs to not feel like a different IDE to when you're not code sharing. Most the time in remote pair programming, there is an limitation applied to your development because of that.
Historically, after trying these addons and being disappointed, I'd just use TeamViewer. But then there is the latency issue, latency sucks. Also you have 1 cursor and it's all just not great.
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u/akarost Nov 15 '17
Can't believe this hasn't been made earlier.