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

86 points by indigodaddy 2 days ago|22 comments

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Mr-Frog 2 days ago

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.

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JawadR 2 days ago

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

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fragmede 2 days ago

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.

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derekcheng08 2 days ago

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

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pryelluw 2 days ago

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 [email protected]

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Wowfunhappy 2 days ago

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?

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JawadR 4 hours ago

Sorry for the late inquiry but yes, PyTogether only works (at least as intended) on chromium-based browsers as far as I can tell.

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grim_io 2 days ago

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.

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JawadR 2 days ago

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

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jtwaleson 2 days ago

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

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crashabr 2 days ago

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

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JawadR 2 days ago

This is something I have on my roadmap!

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moezd 2 days ago

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

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29athrowaway 2 days ago

Just use Zed

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

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Wowfunhappy 2 days ago

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

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koteelok 2 days ago

AI slop cashgrab

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em-bee 2 days ago

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

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JawadR 2 days ago

its free wdym

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koteelok 2 days ago

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.

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fastasucan 11 hours ago

Well, leave those comments on those. Why attack this project when you have no insight if this is the case here?

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esafak 2 days ago

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

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Wowfunhappy 2 days ago

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