You know you're on HN when the CEO of Gitlab replies on your thread

It looks like Repl.it is in this thread, they might provide an exact answer.

But, if they don’t, here’s my take. To me it seems like this is something that would be built in-house with the ability to leverage repl.it’s existing application infrastructure. I’d imagine this would simplify the development compared to the vscode plugin. (stand-alone desktop app)

Also, long-time gitlab-CE user here. I’d love to see multiplayer as a feature.

What would multiplayer look like in a gitlab like app?

I imagine I could edit a file in a web-based editor and my collaborators would be able to see those edits in real time. Maybe it wouldn’t be a full-fledged IDE, but I could imagine building development workflows into gitlab’s CI/CD pipeline to facilitate semi-rapid pair-programming/prototyping.

I can readily see how that would pan out in GitLab's Web IDE[0].

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/22/gitlab-10-7-released/#we...

Yes, this is about live coding in the web IDE and I listed some technologies to look at in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/51116#note_12...

Did you see this Clojure Conj talk about party repl?

https://youtu.be/AJING0Vigpg

Maybe a CRDT or Operational Transform?

It's OT -- we'll write a technical blog soon :)

Looking forward to it!

I've been evaluating ShareDB[1] for a Google Docs-like and it seems promising.

The OT space is really interesting. For those wanting to read more about it, check out the paper: "Operational transformation in real-time group editors: issues, algorithms, and achievements"[2]

[1] https://github.com/share/sharedb

[2] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.53....