I have been using Panic Coda for almost two months now. Here is my 2 cents worth of experience that I would like to share.

Like many people, I don’t usually pay for software (unless I have to). But, after 2 weeks of trial usage, I voluntarily paid the full price for Coda, and I am glad I did. It is a very sweetly written piece of software. At its first generation, it has many features that, in my many years of Dreamweaver usage, I didn’t know I would wish for.

Coda is responsive, much more so than Dreamweaver, on my mac. I like its execution of the file browser (it’s closely integrated with Finder), its tabbing features, the FTP and Terminal (which I haven’t used that much). The CSS editing is nicely done, although I still like CSSEdit’s grouping features. A really neato features in Coda is the web page preview, with integration with WebKit. It’s just like a browser built into Coda, and is very convenient for testing. Coda also handles line-endings and international text very well.

Coda is a nicely written piece of software, and it has many features that some software developers could really learn from. I wish I had known you sooner, Coda.

I still have a wish list though:

• Site-wide text search and replace.
• Movable tabs.
• Insertion of frequently used codes (e.g. table, anchors) with user friendly configuration UI.
• Option not to connect to remote server on launch.
• Version control.
• CSS items grouping into folders like CSSEdits

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