Damn…

panic.com/coda/

Looks ridiculously fantastic. I feel inspired. No pressure though.

Also: panic.com/dietcoda/

It’s likely I’ll get “Diet Coda” right away but I hope there is a demo of Coda 2 to try before you buy. I didn’t but Coda 1 it felt like a WYSIWYG and very heavy for a text editor. I’m sure Coda 2 will be very strong for working with remote files which is one of the places I feel Sublime is lacking.

I love Coda 1 and have been waiting for version 2 for a long time. I am excited and I am planning on buying it as soon as it comes out.

However, the editor in Coda 1 is not as nice as Sublime Text so I only use Coda for web development.
Even if Coda 2 has a much better editor I doubt it will fully replace Sublime Text because I would miss multi-selection and plugins too much.

It looks awesome, but I don’t think I would enjoy this fancy GUI after a couple of weeks using it. It looks like a replacement for dreamweaver or iWeb.

Coda’s definitely not as lightweight as ST. I’d classify it as a middleweight IDE somewhere between text editors and bloatware such as Dreamweaver. That said, it seems to be getting more and more features. I’d hate to see it go over the top and end up like dreamweaver.

Overall, though, for anyone looking for an all-in-one web development solution, it’s a great option.

Is Code for Windows as well? I can’t tell from their page, but I’m suspecting not.

No. It’s osx only.

Great to see some progress. Hopefully we’ll be able to borrow some of the better features of Coda 2.
One thing I’d like to point out is that Coda 2 is being billed as a visual editor, so be prepared to have your hand on your mouse and not your keyboard.

But again, if there is some killer feature I’m sure we can incorporate it with Sublime’s awesome api.

Coda 2 is kind of making me think of changing, I’m being honest, and not jumping on any bandwagons. BUT, only if it has multiple selections/editing. I can’t live without it.

I don’t have a Mac, but this editor seems very nice ! However it tends to look like a dreamweaver-like, and it is too mouse oriented whereas sublime is more keyboard oriented

Coda 2 doesn’t do much for me. I’ll check it out but the demo video is all features that require using your mouse and when I’m coding I want to use my mouse very little, if at all.

Panic makes great Mac apps, and it’s nice to see Coda 2 has been overhauled in Panic fashion. The GUI is defiantly sexy and has the native touch that ST2 lacks, but then again ST2 has some features most editors lack, can’t win them all. I don’t think Panic is trying to cater to the keyboard ninja but as Coda 1 and a few lightweight plugins I was able to use Coda with little mouse action (no where near a Vim like experience but cool non the less). There was just a good 1/2 dozen shortcomings and I stuck to TextMate then to Sublime. End of the day it’s a really nice all-in-one app that will have great appeal, I’m sure once again it beats the hell out of bloatweaver. I will defiantly update my license, though I just recently bought a ST2 license.

(I’m a sucker for Text Editors in an OCD way).

Nothing I have tried has given me the level of productivity that ST2 gives, and I have tried many contenders. Every time I go in, look at the GUI and features, and feel optimistic, and every time I end up fighting with the interface and getting less done. I’ve worked with Textmate, Taco, Netbeans, Nightmareweaver, Coda, and Espresso, to name a few. Espresso was close to being good, but I honestly think it has the same issues that Coda and other “middleweight” editors have: They aren’t powerful enough to feel like a complete IDE, and aren’t lightweight and quick enough to feel like a good text editor. I see that not as a benefit, but a detriment.

I was close with Netbeans, and still use it occasionally for certain things, but it is too Java-oriented. It had promise with plugins for LESS, CoffeeScript, JSLint, etc., but they aren’t maintained well. Netbeans obviously isn’t easy to develop for, and their updating SUCKS. The fact that it’s Ruby module doesn’t work in 7+ brings its stock down a lot. Let’s face it, Oracle doesn’t give a crap about anything but pushing their Java agenda, and Java does nothing for me personally.

ST2 is not visually beautiful, let’s face it. But it’s lightning fast, powerful, and let’s you get stuff done fast.

If I had one gripe with ST2 it would be the configuration time. To get the most of it, you have to make it your own, and in order to do that, you need to tweak a bunch of settings. Doing this without much in the way of easily accessible documentation from a series of hash files (or JSON, or dictionaries, or whatever you’d prefer to call it), isn’t optimal. However, I would much rather have the developer(s) working on important features and functionality than on coding a complex series of settings GUIs and APIs.

I’m offended.

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Nice theme! Is this available somewhere?

Nah, it’s just my fork of raik’s theme.

share it! XD

p.s. where did jon go? :S

Maybe he’s preparing for a final 2.0 release.
It’s been some time now hasn’t it…

Hopefully, it’s a good thing.

Jon’s got his work cut out for him with the official release of v2.0. Patience.