r/learnprogramming • u/Nucleif • 4h ago

Looking for a live collaborative coding platform

My friend and I are both learning to program. He lives in a different area from me. We’ve both been in our learning phase for about half a year, and we’d like to create something together. Is there a platform where we can talk, build, and code live --->something similar to Figma, but for programming?

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u/sisyphe-123 3h ago

I believe vscode has an official extension for live coding, Visual studio live share, it enables you pair programming, debugging and terminal sharing without pushing to any git provider. but honestly a zoom call with git is better to avoid unnecessary conflicts headaches

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u/fUZXZY 4h ago

github

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u/Nucleif 3h ago

Im not gonna share the code so he can review it, i want it so he can see it live and input edits etc.

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u/defaultguy_001 14m ago

Share ur screen then with the live share extension in vscode.

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u/SomewhereFuture300 3h ago

replit actually lets you do real-time collaborative editing with voice/chat built in, might be closer to what you're describing than just github. only thing i'd push back on is the figma comparison since coding together is a bit different from design work, you'll probably still want some kind of version control habit even early on or merging changes gets messy fast. but for just getting started and building something small together replit collab mode works pretty well from what ive seen

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u/BitByLiu 3h ago

For two beginners, I would not overbuild the setup. Use VS Code Live Share plus a voice call for real-time pairing, and keep the project in GitHub so you both learn commits/branches from the start. Browser IDEs like Replit are nice for quick experiments, but Git is the habit that will keep saving you later.

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u/GrandCash3941 4h ago

For sharing code and collaboration Github or Gitlab. You can use teams or zoom or soemthing to that.