Pair programming - VideoChat

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Sridhar Ratnakumar

Are doing only video chats, or also pair programming?

TheMatten

I guess we can do that too

Sridhar Ratnakumar

I use a combination of gotty+tmux for pair programming. Either in read-only mode or read-write (you type your code in nvim in the browser with me)

TheMatten

As a VSCodium user, I find Live Share interesting

Visual Studio Live Share lets you collaboratively edit and debug any codebase with others in real time—each person working in their own familiar, personalized environment.
Sridhar Ratnakumar

I've used Live Share before, it works great. Can it be installed on NixOS? Last I checked it did not support NixOS.

TheMatten

Does it need more than VSCode(ium) itself?

Sridhar Ratnakumar

The extension does some binary installs AFAIU

Sridhar Ratnakumar

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/41189

Issue description Visual Studio Code downloads a prebuilt exe to .vscode and tries to run it, but it errors with: [Client.Agent E] Agent failed with error: Error: spawn /home/kevin/.vscode/extensio...
Sridhar Ratnakumar

Okay it is supported by 3rd party: https://github.com/msteen/nixos-vsliveshare

Live Share support in Visual Studio Code for NixOS - msteen/nixos-vsliveshare