Coda was one of my favourite apps when I first got a Mac. It was such a fresh experience when compared to the dry utilitarian stuff that was available on Windows at the time.
I believe that Panic will create a beautiful product and they have many supporters who will happily pay a license fee - I know I will!
But it’s not going to be an easy ride. There’s a lot to live up to here and they will need to have some killer features thrown in at the beginning.
The hardest part tho will be to make it an approachable tool that can hook the hobbyist but keep them on when they need more. I dropped Coda for a number of reasons, but it wasn’t because it wasn’t a great code editor.
What “visual CSS editor” are they talking about? I have Coda 2, and remember wishing it had a visual CSS editor like Espresso’s.
Coda also suffered from persistent and potentially damaging bugs, like the failure of its project-files pane to open the “home” directory specified for your project when you opened the project. Instead, it apparently just showed whatever directory it last navigated to.
I believe that Panic will create a beautiful product and they have many supporters who will happily pay a license fee - I know I will!
But it’s not going to be an easy ride. There’s a lot to live up to here and they will need to have some killer features thrown in at the beginning.
The hardest part tho will be to make it an approachable tool that can hook the hobbyist but keep them on when they need more. I dropped Coda for a number of reasons, but it wasn’t because it wasn’t a great code editor.