Would love your input on this. We believe team chat can be way better for developers. Moving team chat inside your IDE is the starting point. Let us know what you think.
I've actually been looking for this at my work recently. Our team consists of several people in a few locations across Canada and the US, and I tend to get a lot of questions from other members that require screen-sharing.
If chat was built into our IDEs (we all use our favourites), I'd like the ability to see the other person's code and tabs, the ability to transfer control to either or both parties, and if we're both (or all of us participating in the chat) are working on the same project with the same files, there may not be a need for screen sharing - just open those same files (or transferred versions) locally and let the mouse move how it may - any changes get propagated to the originator and not necessarily saved on my end though :)
Totally agree that seeing and sharing code is essential. The issue of transferring control is very useful, but separate from the chat itself. Independently of how the code is collaboratively changed, the chat should be persistent and pinned to the code itself on the spot where it matters. Then anybody in the team gets to see the conversations at will and knows both what changed and why.
