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

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.

8 hours agoMr-Frog

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

7 hours agoJawadR

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.

3 hours agofragmede

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

an hour agomoezd

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

10 hours agoderekcheng08

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

10 hours agopryelluw

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?

7 hours agoWowfunhappy

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.

8 hours agogrim_io

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

6 hours agoJawadR

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

7 hours agocrashabr

This is something I have on my roadmap!

7 hours agoJawadR

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

9 hours agojtwaleson
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8 hours ago

Just use Zed

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

8 hours ago29athrowaway

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

7 hours agoWowfunhappy

AI slop cashgrab

6 hours agokoteelok

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

6 hours agoem-bee

its free wdym

6 hours agoJawadR

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.

6 hours agokoteelok

And what's wrong with that? The rent's not paying itself.

4 hours agoesafak

Hard to do that when everything (as in backend and frontend) is open source.