Could I get some help around here?Ĭoda 2’s documentation blows. Coda 2 isn’t going to be useful for seven minutes without them. I use shortcuts for clippings in BBEdit about seven hundred times per day. That’s not really minor, and it’s sure not polish. I am under-impressed.īut I really lost my patience with the bugs when I discovered that assigning any keyboard shortcut to any clipping crashes the app. For instance, several crashes on quit sure makes a sour impression. It’s impossible to say how buggy is too buggy, but it feels too bucking fuggy for me.
Sure, it’s a point-oh release, but oh snap: it’s also one they’ve had in the oven for literally years. In fact, I often use BBEdit to tinker with files an order magnitude bigger than that! BBEdit grunts when lifting a 5MB text file, but it does not stagger.įinally under the performance heading, Coda 2 be buggy. And yet I work on it in BBEdit constantly. I clearly cannot edit this bad boy in Coda. It tells me this in a modal dialog sheet, for a file I have to open about fifty times a week, one of the eight books I’ve written.
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What is it doing? I have other two other Git GUIs that update in the blink of an eye!Īnd there’s a related, deal-murdering performance issue: for “large” documents, Coda automatically turns off critical features like syntax colouring, code completion and even - I love this one - line wrap. Git refreshes, for example, are particularly slow. BBEdit is ready for input in less than two seconds, almost too fast to count. It’s pretty, sure, but even on the best iMac money can buy it drags its pretty little feet. The most general problem is that Coda 2 is obviously bogged down by eye candy.
It sure aims high, but the result is just not all that good. My opinion is that Coda has quite a few flaws that should concern nearly any kind of user. And I don’t just mean that it doesn’t suit me.
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Unfortunately, after an investment of “only” a couple full days of trying to get going with Coda 2, I easily accumulated a list of new deal-breakers (and smashers). My hopes soared…setting me up for even more disappointment. I quickly determined that certain Coda 1 (and 1.5) deal-breakers had been addressed, and I was impressed by several things right out of the box, like the clever pairing with Diet Coda in my iPad for previewing. I wanted to love the first version (2007), and bought and played around just for the hell of it, even though I knew there was no real hope that it could compete with the power of BBEdit - my publishing draft horse for a decade now (only half the product’s lifespan). They are crazy talented, and I love what they are trying to do with Coda - obviously, or I wouldn’t be so disappointed - and I have for years. So: apologies to the gang at Panic Software. This might even be the harshest review of Coda 2 out there. I’m aggrieved that it isn’t going to work out. It could have been a big deal for me, improving the feel and flavour of 40-60 hours of work every week. This is a bitchy, snarky review of Coda 2, a snazzy new web development program that doesn’t deserve quite so much ire, but gets it from me because I am so disappointed: I was really hoping I could move into this app and live and work there for many years.
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