Bridging VS Code and Neovim for Peer-to-Peer Collaboration

A look at direct TCP tunneling for teams that want to pair without going through the cloud. Remote collaboration tools usually rely on a lot of abstraction. VS Code Live Share is the obvious example: it works well, it is easy to set up, and for most teams that is more than enough. The trade-off is that the experience depends on managed infrastructure, third-party services, and account-based authentication. That is where Open-Pair gets interesting. It explores a different approach built around direct TCP tunneling, with a focus on keeping the connection path simple and under the user's control. Direct connectivity, with fewer moving parts At the center of Open-Pair is a straightforward networking idea. Instead of sending a session through a central relay, the extension connects participants more directly. The model depends on network access and secure tokens, rather than a cloud identity provider sitting in the middle. That makes the connection path easier to inspect and reason about. F