[Joeri]

+1 for live coding being really hard. I’ve done many talks and by far the hardest was a live coding talk I did recently.

It has all the same difficulties as a regular talk, but with some added handicaps:

- no ability to make eye contact with your audience and feel the room

- no way to talk over small errors, if you get stuck on a bug it can take you 10 minutes to find your way back out

- very difficult to keep the audience’s attention since all they see is a wall of text

- talking and typing at the same time is really hard, you get to enjoy stammering your way through fumble fingers

In short: only try a live coding talk after you have a lot of presentation experience.