Hey folks. Any recommendations for remote pair programming tools? What are you guys using? Looking for something that is cross platform. I have looked at Tuple (mac only) and think that Team Viewer or even a normal Slack / Zoom based screenshare might work quite well. Wanted to explore what else is out there.

Tuple and Screen.so are a couple of orders of magnitudes better. Slack/Zoom etc don't allow keyboard and mouse sharing, which completely defeats the purpose of pairing. I used Tuple for a whole year, and with great effect. Used for regular pairing, for interviews, for meetings, everything. It became even better when they added video along side screen.

What I did recently is - we got on to a Zoom call and then Live Share on VS Code. It works pretty nice. We can share the terminals even. The limitation here would be VS Code, but it works cross platform. And you can have multiple people in a session. You'd have to install the Live Share extension for VS Code and sign in to it.

Thanks guys. Going to try out screen.so - trying to do some pair programming in our remote teams and we have people using all OS-es - Linux, Mac & Windows. So needed something cross platform. There.so looks interesting but is in closed beta. VS Code also sounds like a great idea - though few of us use it regularly - but should be a good tool for occasional sessions.

I’ve used VS Code Live share and it works well. Gives you 2 cursors and independant navigation of code etc on 2 screens, with preferred editing setup, shortcuts etc. Pretty cool & works well.

Hey @loud-glass-33663, I came across https://gitduck.com/ recently. Might want to check it out if you are still looking.