Coda 2.5 Released

I really, really enjoyed Coda for quite a few years in the 1.x days. Panic makes really good stuff.<p>But had a hard time figuring out how to work Coda into a more &quot;modern&quot; workflow with Git, and moved on to Sublime because it has a more active plugin community and is cross-platform.<p>Maybe I should take another look at it. Coda definitely excels at the &quot;I have a local copy of a website, and need to sync it with what&#x27;s on the server over SFTP&quot; workflow.<p>That was back in the 1.x days, though. I haven&#x27;t looked at it in ages. Should I? I do mostly Rails these days.

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.<p>I&#x27;m ready to do a clean install for Yosemite, and maybe it&#x27;s also time to give Coda another look. I had been planning to switch back to Sublime after giving Atom a shot (there&#x27;s <i>a lot</i> to like, but it&#x27;s slow as molasses and the autocomplete is total garbage). So much of my workflow lives outside of my editor these days, so maybe it makes sense.

Perhaps I&#x27;m wrong, but I see Coda fitting in between the poweful IDE&#x27;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.

I&#x27;ve used Coda for a few years, during which time I started using Sublime + wbond&#x27;s FTP plugin. Coda is still crucial to my remote PHP freelance workflow. For remote work, it&#x27;s a much more polished experience when dealing simultaneously with multiple active&#x2F;live projects.<p>Sublime FTP&#x27;s experience can improve slightly when using it in mirror mode, but in practice I&#x27;ve found issues with very slight time differences between my local computer and the remote computer, which can cause unnecessary or possibly dangerous syncing.<p>Can&#x27;t really think of any Coda negatives other than lack of git integration. I generally just keep an SSH open to commit anything.<p>Edit: nvm, it does have git integration. I&#x27;ll have to try it out.

For my day to day work, I use PHPStorm and PyCharm. But, I&#x27;ve been working on a bunch of exercism.io problems in various languages, and figured I&#x27;d give Coda a shot for that. I ended up absolutely hating it. Couldn&#x27;t get the split windows to work the way I liked, and I felt like I was fighting with the editor every step of the way. It&#x27;s a shame, because it would have been a nice way to manage all the little exercise folders.

Sneaky pricing trick there. Coda 2 wasn&#x27;t $99. It was $75 or possibly $50, due to a never ending discount.

I used this years ago and just tried it out this version. I really wanted to like it. Sadly, it still lives in a world where we all use MySQL, SVN, and FTP. Git may be supported, but it&#x27;s an afterthought. For $99, Panic should include a time machine back to 2004.

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&#x27;t see this in the release notes. If the Panic team is listening, can we get this in version 3?

Looking forward to giving this a spin, I moved over to using brackets a lot but remember liking Coda a lot. I think I will have another go at using it the changes sound like they have some pretty big improvements.

I&#x27;m new to programming. Is Coda worth the $99 price compared to Sublime?