I build developer tools and services at Microsoft (currently Codespaces, Live Share, IntelliCode) and maintain some OSS projects (CodeTour, GistPad, CodeSwing, WikiLens)
Do you recall what the issues were on Linux? We’ve addressed a bunch of issues over the last few months, so maybe we’ve resolved your initial problem? If not, I’d love to know what went wrong so we can look into resolving it 👍
Agh, Linux is kind of important since I do most of my dev on a Linux box :(. Is it something where it's gotten better over time, or is it intermittently broken?
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I've used share terminals (through things like tmux and screen) before. That works well with very little lag since you're sharing text updates, so if you're happy using terminal editors and tools, that could work?
I use Tmux and Tmate pretty extensively, with ngrok for forwarding. The barrier to entry is pretty high; and then the level of customization that most people set in their CLI editors means it's difficult for random pair partners to hop in and start going.
I tend to run my vim as neutral as possible ( show line numbers, auto-indent, but that's about it) which helps; but it still has a lot of non-network related friction :(
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It failed me on Linux, but when it works is ok.
I would also have a plan B an online IDE like cloud9.
Do you recall what the issues were on Linux? We’ve addressed a bunch of issues over the last few months, so maybe we’ve resolved your initial problem? If not, I’d love to know what went wrong so we can look into resolving it 👍
Agh, Linux is kind of important since I do most of my dev on a Linux box :(. Is it something where it's gotten better over time, or is it intermittently broken?
I've used share terminals (through things like tmux and screen) before. That works well with very little lag since you're sharing text updates, so if you're happy using terminal editors and tools, that could work?
I use Tmux and Tmate pretty extensively, with ngrok for forwarding. The barrier to entry is pretty high; and then the level of customization that most people set in their CLI editors means it's difficult for random pair partners to hop in and start going.
I tend to run my vim as neutral as possible ( show line numbers, auto-indent, but that's about it) which helps; but it still has a lot of non-network related friction :(