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Oh god no. I tried that same "realtime collaboration" feature with c9.io, and it quickly becomes a huge PITA when it's time to test your changes. If anyone is w
by ferdbold 10y ago
Oh god no. I tried that same "realtime collaboration" feature with c9.io, and it quickly becomes a huge PITA when it's time to test your changes. If anyone is writing midsentence, you have to ask everyone to stop writing so you can test out your stuff, or you'll be swimming in syntax errors. It just doesn't work. Unless, of course, those guys here had an epiphany on to how to solve this problem.
And of course, there's the obvious huge caveat of having other live cursors dancing around ruining your concentration. I like it when editing documents, but I feel like there's just no point in doing it on a source file.
- mshenfield 10y agoAt the very least this would be effective for collaborating on HTML documents. Live editing the same code does sound painful. Stepping back a bit and just being able to see what someone was doing in a different part of the codebase as you worked could be helpful and fun: * See a collaborators changes show up as flashes of red or green highlights in the editor directory tree. * Warn you you and show a real-time diff if you are editing the same document. * Run a static analyzer on hypothetical combined output to show more potential conflicts.