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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?

I was just noticing the same, looking at my HN feed. It's higly remarkable, to say the least.

Re: Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom

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This reminds me of that rant from last week about how computers are less functional these days than they were in the 80's. The reason is that the Amiga had cooperative document editing way back when. (Sorry, can't remember the programs that supported it.)

/Some version of AmigaDOS also had truly relative timestamps. So you might see a file last accessed "Christmas, 1991."

Re: Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom

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Lovely seeing Nathan and co ship this.

Interestingly enough, this feature is the primary reason behind Atom itself existing. We saw the first internal demo of "Atom" (I believe it was "Thunderhorse" at the time) 6-7 years ago, and the main idea was real-time collaboration on code. That sorta took a backseat for awhile as GitHub started to recognize that a collaborative editor was pretty swell in its own right, but glad to see that it's finally all come full circle.

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?

The fact that VS Code's version isn't ready yet, and Atom's is makes me think that Microsoft wanted to respond to Atom's announcement. But I honestly have no idea if that's the case. Just pure speculation.

Edit: Atom's announcement was yesterday. Microsoft's was today. That further fuels my speculative hunch. :)

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