CodePen vs. Codeanywhere vs. JavaScript vs. Visual Studio Code Live Share Comparison Chart

Our Cloud IDE saves you time by deploying a development environment in seconds, enabling you to code, learn, build, and collaborate on your projects. With our amazing web-based code editor in Codeanywhere, you will forget you ever used any other code editor. All major programming languages fully supported, including JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, Java, C/C++, C# any many other. Intelligent editing features such as auto-complete, code refactor, go to definition, rename symbol and many others. Debug code with break points, call stacks and interactive console. Fully featured Git client. Expandable with vast amount of existing extensions. You can also spin up powerful containers in seconds, that can be fully preconfigured for the programming environment of your choice. Develop and run your code on our infrastructure with full sudo access. Prebuilt development environments for all major programming languages, packed with tools and database preinstalled.

Visual Studio Live Share is a real-time collaborative development tool that enables developers to co-edit and co-debug code, share terminals and servers, and communicate seamlessly within their preferred development environments. It supports various programming languages and application types, allowing instant and secure sharing of projects without the need for cloning repositories or setting up additional environments. Live Share facilitates pair programming, code reviews, technical interviews, and educational sessions by providing features such as shared debugging sessions, terminal instances, and localhost web app forwarding. Participants can maintain their personalized editor settings, including themes and keybindings, while collaborating, ensuring a comfortable and efficient workflow. Set breakpoints and group scroll through the code. View web applications and databases without exposing Internet ports.