GNU Screen has supported multiuser editing since 1993.
reply"You newer models are happy scraping the shit... because you've never seen a miracle"
I guess I have occasionally used screen or tmux to help someone out before, but it was a few minutes, and not a regular occurrence.
replyPair programming is the extroverts answer to the solitariness of software development. They love it while everyone else is hating their existence. It works for short stints to solve specific problems but anything beyond that is just gratuitous.
replyDon't forget SubEthaEdit! That was the first multiplayer editor I recall.
replyNever found a use for this sort of thing once novelty wore off. :/
It does work. Very well. The code quality, problem solving, and knowledge transfer are all insanely better when pairing properly.
replyIf Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat are wrong, I don't want to be right.
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