Simply beacuse not everybody uses VS Code ;) Of course if the whole team uses VS Code the Live share function is way more powerful of my simple tool and i recommend using that :)
Actually one service I do use a bit is https://godbolt.org/ a C++ compiler explorer. It would be nice if their editor could work collaboratively.
You can share snippets there but can't edit them with another person.
Yes compling and building code in real time would be a very nice feature to add!
Small correction - live share is also available for & compatible with Visual Studio.
You should be able to make it compatible with VSCode, I believe the protocol powering Live Share is public and VSCode's goal is to make it cross-IDE compatible.
Came here to say this. Snipper does seem a little faster to set up at least, and might be useful for one-off scenarios.
This seems to be an improved pastebin for IRC channels.