[red93]

Simply beacuse not everybody uses VS Code ;) Of course if the whole team uses VS Code the Live share function is way more powerful of my simple tool and i recommend using that :)

[injidup]

Actually one service I do use a bit is https://godbolt.org/ a C++ compiler explorer. It would be nice if their editor could work collaboratively.

You can share snippets there but can't edit them with another person.

[red93]

Yes compling and building code in real time would be a very nice feature to add!

[scrollaway]

You should be able to make it compatible with VSCode, I believe the protocol powering Live Share is public and VSCode's goal is to make it cross-IDE compatible.

[TimTheTinker]

Small correction - live share is also available for & compatible with Visual Studio.