PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners

by indigodaddy • 8 months ago

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pryelluw• 8 months ago

Organizer of Python Atlanta here. This looks really nice. I’ll share it in our meetup next week. If you want to reach out and maybe give me some pointers feel free to reach out at hello@pyatl.dev

derekcheng08• 8 months ago

Pretty cool! Always struck me as odd that the IDE has largely remained single-player for 40 years.

jtwaleson• 8 months ago

This is awesome! I'm also working on something like real-time collaboration on codebases, but nothing as freehand as this, really inspiring!

Mr-Frog• 8 months ago

I was looking for something like this. I used to use Replit to teach code (even integrated it into discussion sections when I was a TA) but they absolutely destroyed the product with AI vibecoding integrations over the past year.

JawadR5• 8 months ago

I'm glad you liked it! I initially designed it as an alternative to replit, taking an anti-AI approach instead of their AI-first approach

fragmede• 8 months ago

Replit gets a total fail for me because the AI integration took the homework assignments I was giving my students, read the instructions to them, and then did their homework for them! There wasn't a way to turn it off when I talked to support, so I just had to tell my students "pretend you didn't see that". We moved off of Replit asap, after that.

29athrowaway• 8 months ago

Just use Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-our-office

Wowfunhappy3• 8 months ago

For education, having something browser-based is extremely helpful. As is having a much more minimalist interface.

grim_io• 8 months ago

It looks great, but does it have a debugger?

Stepping through loops and visualizing in real time how the variables change is indispensable for teaching how programming in general works.

JawadR5• 8 months ago

This is something I am also going to add for sure. I'm looking for a nice open-source python debugger I can easily integrate

digdugdirk• 8 months ago

Take a look at the debug adapter protocol (https://github.com/Microsoft/debug-adapter-protocol), if you could just add the plug and play ability, then someone else might be able to get the debugger itself working.

Wowfunhappy3• 8 months ago

On Firefox, when I run code that uses input, I get:

RuntimeError: The service worker for reading input isn't working. Try closing all this site's tabs, then reopening. If that doesn't work, try using a different browser.

Is this a Firefox problem?

JawadR5• 8 months ago

Sorry for the late inquiry but yes, PyTogether only works (at least as intended) on chromium-based browsers as far as I can tell.

crashabr• 8 months ago

It would be great to be able to share an attached terminal as well, as a lot of action happens there when programming.

JawadR5• 8 months ago

This is something I have on my roadmap!

koteelok2• 8 months ago

AI slop cashgrab

JawadR5• 8 months ago

its free wdym

koteelok2• 8 months ago

Maybe I'm wrong on this one, but I saw like 20 AI-made apps that started asking for a subscription after early adopters started actually using the app.

em-bee• 8 months ago

what's the evidence that this was done with AI?

moezd• 8 months ago

This looks interesting. I have one question, though: Why not VSCode Live Share?

PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners

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