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CODA 2 REVIEW MAC

The workhorse of Mac editors, Textmate.

Atom, one of the newer and lighter options is a very nice hackable editor.

Here are a fewВ of the more well-known alternatives that cover the spectrum in terms of features and functionality:

The Elephants in the RoomДЄs Mac users we have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to editors. It fills a niche and I'm always surprised at how few Coda users are even aware it's there.

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I realize the nearly ubiquitous use of version control might make this feature at bestВ awkward, and at worstВ pointless, but I find it very useful forВ quick and lightweight collaborative coding, especially whenВ version control isВ unnecessary, e.g., whenВ troubleshooting or instructing someone how to do something. CollaborationДЄn unsungВ feature that deserves mentioning is the built-in real-time collaboration tool which is based on the Coding Monkeys SubEthaEdit. I've done some PHP work with v1 and it was fine, I had no complaints, but I'm probably not the best person to assess its usefulness in that area of development. So nice to be able to jump to a specific style in a stylesheet when previewing a separate file.Д«ut where a lot of criticism from hardcore programmers seems aimedВ is its poor performance for dynamic languagesВ like Ruby, PHP, Python etc. One of my favorites among the new featuresВ is the 'Jump To Style' contextual menu option which is quickly becoming an indispensable time-saver. Besides the usual and useful suspects like:

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Code ToolsДЄh yes, the bread-n-butter features of any editor. I use it for deployment in lieu of SFTP and it does what I need beautifully. There will no doubtВ be missing featuresВ compared to a dedicated GitВ application and I'm sure for more complex workflows than mine there may be issues that necessitate a full-featured client. Integrated version control is improved with the much-requested addition of GitВ to the already present Subversion. The new CSS 'pops' (shortcuts) are a nice and mostly usefulВ touch, but when compared to the original CSSEdit app (not theВ stripped-down version now built into Espresso) Coda's implementation, while nice, lacks some of the features of CSSEdit. In fact, now that itвЂ™s code-centric rather than visual it feels more streamlined and efficient, and is (probably) more in line with what a developer expects from a CSS editor. ThatвЂ™s not to say the new CSS editor is bad, far from it. If you prefer a GUI over hand-coding CSS then Coda 2 might have lost some of its charm. As my CSS skills grew I eventually moved away from it,В though I still find the interface beautiful. One of my favorite features of v1 was the CSS GUI mainly because at the time I was still learning to hand-code so it was a comforting bridge between the two worlds. Sure, it's not a deal-breaker but it could be more useful. Why? I often keep the local and remote database open but Coda only saves the settings for one so if I need to access more then I need to manually enterВ the settings for each one. One thing I would like is the ability to assignВ multiple databases toВ a site and save the settings for eachВ so I can then select the one I want from a picker and open itВ in a new tab. Although my database needs arenвЂ™t that demandingВ I find I still prefer the standalone application to CodaвЂ™s, though I wish that werenвЂ™t the case. I haven't warmed-up toВ the new MySQL editor the way I expected to despite my initial certaintyВ thatВ I would useВ it since it's a scaled-down version of Sequel ProВ which I use daily. In fairness I'm sure theВ вЂњslownessвЂќВ has to do with my perception and not any measurable lag in how Coda performs its functions. It also feels less responsive heavier, lumbering at times, no doubt due to the added clicking and different UI. I've gotten used to it (sort of) but I'm still conscious of it and it's a constant if mild annoyance. Immediately obvious was that nearly everything takes a click or two more than it did in v1 and all those extra clicks add up. Also, I rarely use version control collaboratively (itвЂ™s just me) and theВ bulk of my work is on theВ front-end, and to a lesser extent on the back-end with PHP. I am for the most part quite satisfied with v2, however not all is perfect.В To lend some perspective to this article this is not an in-depth review, just a quick look.

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Like many I'm an admirer of software developer PanicВ and a daily user of their CodaВ programming editor since it's initial release in 2007В so naturally I was happy when after a veryВ long wait Coda 2 was released. Also, you can sign-up to be a (potential) beta-tester. From Panic: Coda NextВ is very close to a public beta later this year.

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