Devsession

Concurrent coding from your own IDE or terminal of choice

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Concurrent coding from your own IDE or terminal of choice

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Leave large merge conflicts in the past. Stay connected to your team without compromising on your development tools.

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Congrats on the launch! Very excited about the potential of Devsession. I see feature flags are a big focus for the beta—why the emphasis there? Are you anticipating Devsession will be able to replace Git?

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5yr ago

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@nahrin_jalal Thanks! We're super hyped as well. We think Git is great as a version control system, but feel it's a bit lacking when it comes to collaboration. I personally worked in quite a few environments where the development team did everything in order to avoid large merge conflicts: 1. Encouraged team members to develop expertise and only deal with certain parts of the code-base 2. Tried to shorten the feedback loop by committing to main several times a day 3. Have large amounts of "dead" code behind feature flags inside main representing still incomplete features Devsession will allow developers to make a lot of these problems go away by coding in real time together. At any time, the current state of the code can be committed from Devsession to Git - allowing it to do what it's good at: keep the history and canonical state of the code base.

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5yr ago

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"My favorite part of development is resolving large and complex merge conflicts." --No one, ever Heya, Hunters! We waste so much time on merge conflicts, and on fixing bugs that happen because Alice zero indexed the IDs while Bob one indexed them. Development is team work, but as individual developers, our teammates' work is often a point of friction rather than a welcome additional pair of hands. ## Share your terminal without sharing your cursor Devsession will also allow you to synchronize your terminal, with each user having their own cursor rather than being made to share the cursor with others. This would allow developers to hop between the different environments of their teammates in order to be able to seamlessly pair on a joint problem in the middle of development. This solution could also be used separately. In order to collaborate on solving a production issue or temporarily helping a friend out of a jam. Find our more about terminal sharing here: https://devsession.is/terminal-s... ## Join a dev session from your own IDE With Devsession, the code is shared between all members of the team, but each one still works in their own environment. Devsession will also include a built in set of feature flags, allowing developers to switch each other's changes on and off if they want to temporarily work alone without having to diverge the code itself. The feature flags are logical rather than textual. This means that instead of having a language-specific feature flag such as if (my_feature_flag_name == true) inside the code, Devsession will be able to manage which parts of the code should appear in your editor depending on which flags you switched on. In addition, Devsession will include a built in modern messaging system. Meaning that if you don't want to be interrupted in your flow, you could also set yourself as "Do not disturb", and then your teammates can always switch off your feature flag if they want to. Read more here: https://devsession.is/ide-synchr... ## Devsession is an open source company Devsession was started by the team behind Zellij: https://github.com/zellij-org/ze... We intend to use Zellij as our technological infrastructure and be the first major app in a growing ecosystem around it. To that end, we intend to sponsor the development of Zellij and work to improve it and nurture others who might benefit from the infrastructure it offers. As a free service to the Zellij community, Devsession also intends to offer terminal sharing over the web for free. Sharing that will not lock users in to only having one cursor each, but instead allow them to work separately in the same session. When we launch, we intend for terminal sharing to be as simple as sending a friend a URL: https://my.devsession.is/alices-.... They would open the URL in their browser or through Zellij and immediately start working together. ## Early Access We're hard at work making this vision a reality. If you are as excited about this as we are, you can help out by signing up for early access: https://devsession.is Don't worry, we hate spam too! We promise to only ever use your email to invite you to the Beta.

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5yr ago

Devsession

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Hey everybody, Aram here, C[E|T]O of Devsession. Feel free to AMA about Zellij and the tech powering Devsession! 👋

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5yr ago