James, your article hits quite a few of the factors that motivated us to create CodeTogether, and we appreciate the favorable mention, thanks! I just wanted to clarify a few points wrt. CodeTogether's capabilities:
1) Just like Code With Me, CodeTogether does not require the guests to have the codebase locally. The entire project/workspace tree is visible of course (almost immediately after joining a session), and files are fetched as needed. Despite this, guests will still get content assist, validation and code analysis capabilities that the host has locally.
2) We support multiple IDE clients, so you can start a session in IntelliJ and join in VS Code (or vice versa, throw Eclipse into the mix as well) - the guest IDE does not need to be set up for development in the language / framework the host is working on. You can even join from a browser, so if you'd like to participate in a code review session from your phone or tablet, you very well can!
3) Since CodeTogether 4.0 (released in March this year), we've supported terminal sharing with write access. That means guests can type in and execute commands on terminals that are running on the host.
4) We've offered an on premises distribution almost from the very beginning. So you can run your own CodeTogether server for a fraction of the cost of Code With Me's enterprise offering.
Happy to discuss or clarify further - again, thank you for the mention!
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James, your article hits quite a few of the factors that motivated us to create CodeTogether, and we appreciate the favorable mention, thanks! I just wanted to clarify a few points wrt. CodeTogether's capabilities:
1) Just like Code With Me, CodeTogether does not require the guests to have the codebase locally. The entire project/workspace tree is visible of course (almost immediately after joining a session), and files are fetched as needed. Despite this, guests will still get content assist, validation and code analysis capabilities that the host has locally.
2) We support multiple IDE clients, so you can start a session in IntelliJ and join in VS Code (or vice versa, throw Eclipse into the mix as well) - the guest IDE does not need to be set up for development in the language / framework the host is working on. You can even join from a browser, so if you'd like to participate in a code review session from your phone or tablet, you very well can!
3) Since CodeTogether 4.0 (released in March this year), we've supported terminal sharing with write access. That means guests can type in and execute commands on terminals that are running on the host.
4) We've offered an on premises distribution almost from the very beginning. So you can run your own CodeTogether server for a fraction of the cost of Code With Me's enterprise offering.
Happy to discuss or clarify further - again, thank you for the mention!