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Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom

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Re: Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom

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See also Floobits, which is a fully-realized, production ready service that allows collaborative real-time editing of your editors entire workspace.

Floobits has plugins for all major editors, including Vim and IntelliJ, as well as Google Hangouts.

https://floobits.com/

Disclosure: I used Floobits a few times and think it’s awesome 10/10

Re: Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom

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Really gave atom a hard try. Back to notepad after a few months. The add-ons are the only advantage, but are grossly overshadowed by the resource consumption this behemoth requires.

Yeah, someone complains about the resource usage in every Atom post.

I feel likes it's a rehash of emacs vs vi debate from 30 years ago. Emacs needed many megabytes more than vi so people wouldn't use it.

As time goes on the resource usage becomes less of a problem. My 4 year old laptop has 16GB of RAM and I don't really worry about it. I'll get 32GB or 64GB in my next computer. I never liked quibbling over memory. My time is much more important to me and I want the best tools. I also want them to swim in RAM.

Re: Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom

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post #6

Really gave atom a hard try. Back to notepad after a few months. The add-ons are the only advantage, but are grossly overshadowed by the resource consumption this behemoth requires.

Sorry to hear that. We’re improving Atom’s efficiency all the time, but there are definitely areas that we just haven’t gotten to yet.

Re: Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom

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Is it only a coincidence that real-time collaboration is being announced both for Atom and VS Code ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704376 ) at the same time?

Wouldn't it be nice for VS Live Share and Teletype to be compatible on protocol-level?

Re: Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom

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post #12
post #6

Really gave atom a hard try. Back to notepad after a few months. The add-ons are the only advantage, but are grossly overshadowed by the resource consumption this behemoth requires.

Yeah, someone complains about the resource usage in every Atom post. I feel likes it's a rehash of emacs vs vi debate from 30 years ago. Emacs needed many megabytes more than vi so people wouldn't use it. As time goes on the resource usage becomes less of a problem. My 4 year old laptop has 16GB of RAM and I don't really worry about it. I'll get 32GB or 64GB in my next computer. I never liked quibbling over memory. M…

> My 4 year old laptop has 16GB of RAM

Even now the highest end laptops have same 16GB RAM. Sad state of affairs :(

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