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Coda 2.5 Released

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Re: Coda 2.5 Released

#21

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.

I like using Transmit to mount wherever I'm working-with as a drive, then saving is pretty seamless.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

#22

Love Coda 2 and am very excited about Coda 2.5. The one major annoyance for me with 2 was not being able to search remote locations. I don't see this in the release notes. If the Panic team is listening, can we get this in version 3?

I would like this feature too (as well as indexing symbols from remote files), butI wouldn't expect it, due to the potential for overwhelming a server by downloading hundreds or thousands of files. Doing the search server-side would be prohibitively complicated, due to the variety of shells and environments.

The workaround would be to use a setup that mounts SFTP drives locally (ExpanDrive, MacFusion, etc).

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#23
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I see Coda fitting in between the poweful IDE's produced by JetBrains (ItelliJ, WebStorm, PHPStorm, etc.) and text editors. I think one issue for Coda is that development workflows (especially web development) changed significantly since version 2 was released in 2012. Coda is still a very nice application if it fits in your workflow.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

#24

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

IMO it might not be worth to spend that kind of money on something like this if you don't know what you want from it yet, which you don't seem to. Maybe you can find some free editor/IDE, or a free version of such? Then maybe you can choose what to purchase (if anything) once you know what you want.

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#25
post #14

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.

If you want an actual free but very solid programmers' text editor for the Mac, try TextWrangler (the baby sibling of BBEdit).

Sublime is great but _not_ free.

I used to like Coda when I was mostly developing PHP stuff solo with MAMP, but when doing serious stuff I find it kind of an impediment. I still love Transmit.

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#26

I definitely outgrew Coda a few years ago although I occasionally fire it up to use its visual grep. However, in the time since I switched to other editors (Chocolat, Sublime, and now Atom), my workflow has changed significantly. I'm ready to do a clean install for Yosemite, and maybe it's also time to give Coda another look. I had been planning to switch back to Sublime after giving Atom a shot (there's a lot to lik…

What did you think of Chocolat, compared to the others? I've been meaning to give it a try.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

#27

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 bet…

> FTP

Please do not use FTP, FTP sends everything over the wire in clear text, across the entire internet. You should not be using FTP for anything ever. Use SFTP, scp, HTTPS from the server, but not FTP.

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post #26

I definitely outgrew Coda a few years ago although I occasionally fire it up to use its visual grep. However, in the time since I switched to other editors (Chocolat, Sublime, and now Atom), my workflow has changed significantly. I'm ready to do a clean install for Yosemite, and maybe it's also time to give Coda another look. I had been planning to switch back to Sublime after giving Atom a shot (there's a lot to lik…

What did you think of Chocolat, compared to the others? I've been meaning to give it a try.

I have had chocolat installed for a long time and I sometimes use it when I don't want to look at a file in vim, which is pretty often when I just want to read the code. I hang out in the #chocolat channel on Freenode. My take on it is the developer sincerely cares about making a great editor, and it has always been pretty simple to use. The economics of being yet another code editor are not great and Alex is the only owner and developer yet he is still dedicated to the project. I am not sure you will ever see the kind of ecosystem that TextMate and Sublime Text enjoy, but if you can see past its faults, chocolat is a pretty nice little editor.

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#29

I really, really enjoyed Coda for quite a few years in the 1.x days. Panic makes really good stuff. But had a hard time figuring out how to work Coda into a more "modern" workflow with Git, and moved on to Sublime because it has a more active plugin community and is cross-platform. Maybe I should take another look at it. Coda definitely excels at the "I have a local copy of a website, and need to sync it with what's…

Coda 2, released a few years ago, brought a lot of git-related changes. Things like branching, merging, and committing are integrated in the UI. Personally, I like to have a terminal window open in Coda for git, but the integrated solution works reasonably well.

Re: Coda 2.5 Released

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post #26

I definitely outgrew Coda a few years ago although I occasionally fire it up to use its visual grep. However, in the time since I switched to other editors (Chocolat, Sublime, and now Atom), my workflow has changed significantly. I'm ready to do a clean install for Yosemite, and maybe it's also time to give Coda another look. I had been planning to switch back to Sublime after giving Atom a shot (there's a lot to lik…

What did you think of Chocolat, compared to the others? I've been meaning to give it a try.

I'm a huge fan personally, I especially like it's implementation of combined gutter linting and git line diffs.
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