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Re: Coda 2.5 Released

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Post by madoublet » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 1:49 PM UTC

sixQuarks wrote: post #2

I'm new to programming. Is Coda worth the $99 price compared to Sublime?

I prefer Sublime, but Coda has better support for accessing remote locations (via FTP, sFTP, etc). With ST2, you need a third party plugin to do this and I found it a bit awkward to use.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

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Post by brador » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 1:52 PM UTC

Sneaky pricing trick there. Coda 2 wasn't $99. It was $75 or possibly $50, due to a never ending discount.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

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Post by jkestner » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 1:53 PM UTC

sixQuarks wrote: post #2

I'm new to programming. Is Coda worth the $99 price compared to Sublime?

Personal taste. I tried an older version of Coda and instead bought http://www.macrabbit.com/espresso/ because it felt more in tune with my style, and because it came with the wonderful CSSEdit. But Panic makes great products, several of which I've bought. Transmit is cooler than an FTP client has a right to be.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

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Post by sseal » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 1:57 PM UTC

sixQuarks wrote: post #2

I'm new to programming. Is Coda worth the $99 price compared to Sublime?

I have both, Sublime seems to be leaner, but Coda has some neat features. If you are new to programming I would personally use Sublime since it is free, and then decide from there after a month or so.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

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Post by andystannard » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:00 PM UTC

brador wrote: post #12

Sneaky pricing trick there. Coda 2 wasn't $99. It was $75 or possibly $50, due to a never ending discount.

yeah I was thought the price sounded much higher than I remember.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

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Post by adamors » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:05 PM UTC

estoile wrote: post #7

k-mcgrady wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends how you like to code. One is a text editor with an optional fee of $70 the other is more like an IDE for web development. Both are powerful and useful tools. For most people I think it's just personal preference.

If you want to get access to Sublime Text 3 Beta, the $70 fee is not optional. Just an observation.

It is: http://www.sublimetext.com/3

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

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Post by michaelgrafl » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:11 PM UTC

sseal wrote: post #14

sixQuarks wrote: post #2

I'm new to programming. Is Coda worth the $99 price compared to Sublime?

I have both, Sublime seems to be leaner, but Coda has some neat features. If you are new to programming I would personally use Sublime since it is free, and then decide from there after a month or so.

Ahem, Sublime Text costs 70 USD at the moment.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

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Post by estoile » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:21 PM UTC

adamors wrote: post #16

estoile wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to get access to Sublime Text 3 Beta, the $70 fee is not optional. Just an observation.

It is: http://www.sublimetext.com/3

Yes, sorry, bad wording. You can download a Sublime Text 3 Beta build, however, you need a valid key in order to use it.

Edit: Could be that you only need a valid key for the development builds. I was under this impression because those are the ones that I always download.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

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Post by fiatpandas » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:25 PM UTC

I've used Coda for a few years, during which time I started using Sublime + wbond's FTP plugin. Coda is still crucial to my remote PHP freelance workflow. For remote work, it's a much more polished experience when dealing simultaneously with multiple active/live projects.

Sublime FTP's experience can improve slightly when using it in mirror mode, but in practice I've found issues with very slight time differences between my local computer and the remote computer, which can cause unnecessary or possibly dangerous syncing.

Can't really think of any Coda negatives other than lack of git integration. I generally just keep an SSH open to commit anything.

Edit: nvm, it does have git integration. I'll have to try it out.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

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Post by lukifer » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 2:31 PM UTC

brador wrote: post #12

Sneaky pricing trick there. Coda 2 wasn't $99. It was $75 or possibly $50, due to a never ending discount.

This was due to the lack of upgrade pricing in the App Store; they essentially gave everyone the upgrade price for a while. $99 was always the intended "retail price"; now that they've abandoned the App Store, I expect Coda 3 will have separate pricing for upgrading vs. buying new.