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I'm not meaning to take away anything from this announcement, which I think is great. But what options are there for collaborative coding in Sublime? (I don't use Atom)

Having tried Floobits, the experience was ok. But I do a lot of pairing online with 0 day beginners, and need something as little setup as possible. ie. The students are able to install Sublime and Packages. Having to sign up for Floobits is just another step I'd like to avoid.

I suppose I'm looking for a service (paid or otherwise) that provides urls which would relay the keystrokes between editors facilitated by a Sublime package. Does anything like that exist?

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Not the answer you're looking for, but have you tried Visual Studio Code with VS Live Share (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MS-vsliv...)? It works really well for pair/swarm programming.

And the event-stream implementation will blow your mind.

Are you referring to the backdoor or is it actually a mind-blowing implementation?

I know that this doesn't make use of Sublime, but you could give Cloud9 a shot. I've used it for pair programming and it's actually pretty nice on that front, especially if you're just helping beginners understand things because you end up sharing the entire environment, not just your IDE.

https://docs.c9.io/docs/share-a-workspace

Sorry I can't help on the Sublime side - I've tried Floobits with moderate success, but understand your need for something that's more "plug and play".

Why bring collaboration to Sublime instead of using any of the other editors that already supports it!? Is there for example some things that Sublime does better then the others!?

sublime is still much faster and more stable than anything else... the only time i switch to a jetbrains editor is when i need something heavy like java or android or flutter...

for example: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/63542 just look at the difference between sublime and vs code.

the new ui in vs code also made things slower: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60419

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