→ Coda 2 released, half-price today:
I’ve previously done all of my web development in TextMate, but I bought both Codas today and I’m going to give them a shot. Panic’s other apps are so great that I trust them enough to take the chance.
(Via Marco.org)
I agree with Marco on this point completely. Panic has such a good track record that I was willing to pick up both of these apps just to give them a shot. I don’t expect to be dropping BBEdit and Textastic any time soon, but I’m open to the possibility. It’s fun to see how different companies, especially really great ones, handle the same problems in design. The approach in Coda is foreign to me at the moment, but I can totally see the elegance and beauty in its approach. And I’m forced to question whether I prefer other apps out of habit, or because they are truly better.
I have to disagree, however, with Marco’s (and Gruber’s, and Shawn Blanc’s) assertion that Diet Coda is a great iOS app name. “Diet” suggests lite to me, as in Coda on the iPad is watered down, stripped down, not as powerful as the real thing. That happens to be true at the moment, but three or four years from now, when tablets are the main computers most web designers are using full-time, Diet Coda is going to have to be as fully featured and rich as its Mac counterpart. And then the Diet name will seem silly and derogatory.
And I’m just not in the camp of people who believe that the iPad is somehow a “lesser” computing device. Given time, the iPad will do the same thing the original Mac did for computing; it will become the de facto standard way of getting things done, and make the mouse-driven desktop look like the command line.
