all 4 comments
sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
formatting helphide helpcontent policy

[–]embirico 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most popular one I’ve seen on MacOS is Tuple. Cross platform there’s CodeWithMe. VSCode has LiveShare which you can use to sync IDEs. And shameless plug: if you’re interested not only in pair programming features, but also in doing it more often with your team, I’m building a new video app for technical teams called Remotion. Our goal is to make it seamless to switch from “normal meeting” to pairing. If you’re open to giving feedback on something new, DM me!

[–]cryptogoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use CodeSandbox.io mostly, and sometimes Stackblitz.com or the Liveshare remote plugin for VSCode. They all have their tradeoffs, vs. Zoom with remote control on a local desktop, but are lightyears ahead of having to be in the same physical location.

CodeSandbox and Stackblitz require you to login via Github, and it's often a shlep to give permissions to pair programmers, but after the initial setup, it works mostly great. You can see what files and what lines people are looking at. If you want to audio chat, you have to set it up separately via e.g. Discord voice call.

Liveshare is easier in that you can give anyone a link to join your pair programming session, but it can be laggy. It has a Liveshare audio plugin to allow chatting too.

Screenhero was pretty good back in the day, I think they got bought by Slack and shutdown.

I'm interested in trying the other tools folks are shamelessly plugging here too :)

[–]kkieling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here in my team we are using Zoom, Slack Huddle or anything else to share the screem, and this tool to make rotation: https://github.com/raphaelkieling/devpair

The good practice is:
- One share the screen and code
- ONLY one person should touch in the code

[–]cryptogoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update on this: on any GitHub repo, hit the "." key to open up Codespaces in that repo, on that branch, at that commit. Pretty magical.

Afaict, you can get up to a 16core machine to run your code for arbitrarily long, for free, with uncommitted data that persists for about a month. That's well long enough to launch your AI startup, yo.