Ask HN: After 5 years, why is nobody using VSCode LiveShare?

1 chw9e 0 8/14/2025, 7:45:08 PM

VSCode has LiveShare, Zed's whole thing is supposedly collaboration, there's a bunch of startups trying to crack this. And yet here we all are, tabbing between our editor and Slack every 5 minutes. Not to mention the constant stream of notifications from Linear, GitHub comments, whatever else.

This seems like such an obvious problem to solve. We're already collaborating all day but in really fractured ways. I literally don't know anyone who uses collaborative editing for actual work.

If you're someone who does use LiveShare/Zed/whatever for real (not just showing off in a demo) - what does that actually look like day to day? Pairing? Mob programming? And why did it stick for you when everyone else seems to try it once and never touch it again?

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Ask HN: After 5 years, why is nobody using VSCode LiveShare?

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