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Interesting that they chose to compete on Mac, instead of iPad, as they could have easily commanded the majority of the iOS market share. Coda had some of the b

by andr 7y ago

Interesting that they chose to compete on Mac, instead of iPad, as they could have easily commanded the majority of the iOS market share. Coda had some of the best support for editing directly on remote servers, and this would fit the iPad usage model quite well.

reaperducer 7y ago
There’s already a Coda for iPad and iPhone.
- Pulcinella 7y ago
  iOS Coda is honestly, embarrassingly bad. It takes like 6 or 7 taps to start actually editing a document and it still doesn’t sync files between devices. An app that is proud of how “native” it is doesn’t support iCloud (or Dropbox, or any other syncing) in the year 2019.
  - reaperducer 7y ago
    I've used it for emergencies a few times, and you're right that it's a bit cumbersome to get going. But I've never had a problem with syncing between iPhone, iPad, iMac, and MacBook Air. I'd also like it to use iCloud for sync. Panic explained a little bit about why it uses its own platform in a blog post I found recently, but it was kind of vague.
azimuth11 7y ago
Competing solely on Mac seems strange. I’ve used vscode on multiple operating systems for a bunch of languages/deployments/use cases, and the speed and availability of plugins is great. There is room for niche stuff, but this blog post is too vague to determine what niche they are now trying to fill. As a previous coda user and someone whose spent a considerable amount of time with many IDEs/text editors, it looks like they forked vscode and are trying to see if people want them to develop a new app. If they are actually using something internally that was good, then, as a development software selling company, they would be promoting the product’s actual benefits instead of writing this fluff about considering/reluctantly releasing their ‘awesome internal tool’. How many companies make their own internal editors anyway?

by andr 7y ago

reaperducer 7y ago

There’s already a Coda for iPad and iPhone.

Pulcinella 7y ago
iOS Coda is honestly, embarrassingly bad. It takes like 6 or 7 taps to start actually editing a document and it still doesn’t sync files between devices. An app that is proud of how “native” it is doesn’t support iCloud (or Dropbox, or any other syncing) in the year 2019.
- reaperducer 7y ago
  I've used it for emergencies a few times, and you're right that it's a bit cumbersome to get going. But I've never had a problem with syncing between iPhone, iPad, iMac, and MacBook Air. I'd also like it to use iCloud for sync. Panic explained a little bit about why it uses its own platform in a blog post I found recently, but it was kind of vague.

azimuth11 7y ago

Competing solely on Mac seems strange. I’ve used vscode on multiple operating systems for a bunch of languages/deployments/use cases, and the speed and availability of plugins is great. There is room for niche stuff, but this blog post is too vague to determine what niche they are now trying to fill. As a previous coda user and someone whose spent a considerable amount of time with many IDEs/text editors, it looks like they forked vscode and are trying to see if people want them to develop a new app. If they are actually using something internally that was good, then, as a development software selling company, they would be promoting the product’s actual benefits instead of writing this fluff about considering/reluctantly releasing their ‘awesome internal tool’. How many companies make their own internal editors anyway?