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Has anyone had a collaborative coding experience that rivals Google Docs? Is this a hole in the available tools? Opinions on Replit or Google Colab?

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Michael Nielsen

@michael_nielsen

Feb 8

I find it: + Easiest to write or code on my own in emacs + git + GitHub + Much easier to use Google docs to do a lot of back-and-forth collaboration on writing + Much easier to use emacs + git + GitHub (not GDocs) to do a lot of back-and-forth collaboration on code

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VS Code Live Share and similar tools (e.g., JetBrains Code With Me) are the closest I've used. They have a synchronous editing model (someone has to "host") but have the advantage of being full-featured editors.

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You might be able to make something that feels more like Google Docs by setting up a GitHub Codespace as a "host" and keeping a persistent Live Share session open. I've never tried that, though.

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Cool! Thanks! I'll try out these ideas.

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We built CodeTogether with a Google Docs model. You can even pick shared or separate cursors and work on the same file or separate ones. More info👇🏻 twitter.com/toddewilliams/

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