Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Visual Studio Live Share

code.visualstudio.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 115 posts

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

#92

Post by chillee »

fro0116 wrote: post #36
martinsuchan wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wondering what will be the final pricing of this feature? It looks too good to be available for free for any VS/VSCode user.

Surely they're not incurring much costs with this feature if they're just using Microsoft servers for the initial WebRTC handshake? That's what Atom's recently announced Teletype feature does at least: https://blog.atom.io/2017/11/15/code-together-in-real-time-w...

This is incredibly not promising (in regards to pricing): https://twitter.com/VisualStudio/status/930885113159802886

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

#93

Post by exhilaration »

dagaci wrote: post #66
lostintangent wrote: post #5

PM on the Visual Studio Live Share team here. Thanks for posting! We're really excited to hear folks thoughts about this experience, how it can help improve their existing team collaboration workflows, and how we can continue to improve/learn. So please sign up and/or let us know what you think :) We've heard pretty loud and clear that developers want better collaboration tools, without needing to switch editors, wit…

Does this require full internet access or can this work peer-to-peer for developers working behind the firewall.

Full internet access required. From this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15705063

Authentication and authorization is managed by a cloud service

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

#95

Post by lostintangent »

dotnetisnotdead wrote: post #72

This could be super useful for code reviews. I wonder how well it works across continents (I'm guessing fairly well).

Code reviews are definitely a scenario we believe can benefit from Live Share, regardless which version control workflow your team is using (e.g. PRs, trunk-based development). In addition to being able to quickly seek help, we want Live Share to enable easily seeking and _providing_ feedback/advice, in a way that makes code reviews something that happen frequently and more naturally bi-directional (e.g. "Hey I have a suggestion about your PR, can I show your something in a quick share session?").

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

#96

Post by lostintangent »

alangpierce wrote: post #17

The demo showed this as an alternative to screen sharing, but I could also see this feature being really useful for pair programming and providing in-person help. Even when I'm standing next to someone, it's nice for me to be able to poke around in their code on my own laptop, especially if I can type in examples of things I have in mind if I make a suggestion.

Thanks for this feedback! We believe that Live Share's ability for developer's to work together in real-time, while choosing to "follow" each other, or temporarily/periodically investigate something independently (e.g. "Let me check out whether this helper function could work here"), will enable it to apply naturally to many collaboration scenarios (e.g. pairing, seeking help/advice, swarming, consulting, mentoring, etc.), without needing to impose any specific opinion on team workflow and/or the practices they've found to be efficient/successful for them.

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

#97

Post by trastentrasten »

colek42 wrote: post #85
lostintangent wrote: post #5

PM on the Visual Studio Live Share team here. Thanks for posting! We're really excited to hear folks thoughts about this experience, how it can help improve their existing team collaboration workflows, and how we can continue to improve/learn. So please sign up and/or let us know what you think :) We've heard pretty loud and clear that developers want better collaboration tools, without needing to switch editors, wit…

Wow, this is awesome. While the use case outlined here is great I could probably use this as a remote editor. That is, I can have my dev environment running in the 'cloud' and still expect responsiveness from my editor!

My primary use case would also be as a remote editor.

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

#98

Post by mathnode »

lostintangent wrote: post #13
kumarvvr wrote: post #9

This really shows how seriously they are taking VSC. Very cool.

We're definitely very serious about Visual Studio Code :)

Any chance of talking the UE4 teams into requiring VSCode as a minimum instead of VS?

Me and my colleagues are going to play with Live Share ASAP.

Re: Visual Studio Live Share

#99

Post by lostintangent »

twitchard wrote: post #91

My team at the Node Knockout hackathon implemented an editor-agnostic version of this feature literally last weekend. https://www.nodeknockout.com/entries/35-nodeist-colony

Nice work! This looks really awesome, and is another great example of the passion around better collaboration tools for developers. Thanks for sharing this.

With Live Share, we're also looking to extend the collaboration experience beyond real-time editing, and into collaborative debugging, and more, as we continue to learn from the ecosystem what is needed to continue improving team cohesion, regardless of the app scenario/issue at hand.

Post reply on HN