I remember listening to Nathan Sobo, one of the founders/creators of Atom, talking to The Changelog in 2017 about creating Atom and his goal/dream to make it a

I remember listening to Nathan Sobo, one of the founders/creators of Atom, talking to The Changelog in 2017 about creating Atom and his goal/dream to make it a collaborative editor, i.e. Google Docs for code [0]. He didn't have a timeline but he had done research into it: > That’s definitely something I wanna do; that’s not really in progress yet. I did a bunch of research in that area, so that I can’t really put a timeline on. I can definitely say that more async style traditional GitHub collaboration will be happening this year. I think there will be a natural outgrowth from that into the real-time stuff. Don't know if Sobo or his Atom colleagues do anything with the VS Code people, but hearing about Codespaces made me immediately think about his ideas for cloud editing. (AFAIK the CodeSpaces presentation didn't mention collaborative editing in its current feature set) [0] https://changelog.com/podcast/241 https://changelog.com/podcast/241