Ask HN: Open-source, free pair-programming tools?

Hello!

What are the best open-source, free pair-programming tools out there?

I'm doing collaborative code development & coaching - the students often don't have credit cards or accounts on platforms like Google, Microsoft etc.

We're using VSCodium code editor, and programming web apps with Python (Django, perhaps an API framework lile FastAPI/DRF) HTML, React, Typescript, SQlite, etc.

Commercial tools I'm aware of: Pop.com (free), Tuple (paid), VSCode Live Share (free, required Microsoft/GitHub account), Jitsi (video conference tool, but I don't think it has screen control)

Looking for high quality, open/free equivalents...

> GitHub account

Is there a reason why you wouldn't want your students learning to code to create github accounts. That seems to be pretty universal in modern development to either have _something_ in github or gitlab.

dv35z · a year ago

We have reservations about plugging students directly into a relationship with Google & Microsoft. We do our best to partner with 5-star, excellent organizations, who prioritize quality, integrity & excellent customer service.

Putting principles into practice, we are exploring Codeberg for source code repository.

We evaluated GitLab - found the product confusing. Spoke to the organization, their priority is "enterprise" rather than open-source / entrepreneurship, so bounced out.