Coda 1 was pretty good when it was released – it raised the bar for approachable HTML and CSS tools, compared to many of the available tools. Coda 2 actually s

Coda 1 was pretty good when it was released – it raised the bar for approachable HTML and CSS tools, compared to many of the available tools. Coda 2 actually seems to take a step backwards and it certainly doesn't measure up to the rep that Coda 1 earned out of the gate. It makes some jumps in terms of ancillary UI widgets but it doesn't dramatically change or improve workflows over Coda 1, as far as I can see in 15 minutes of exploring. It doesn't integrate well with dynamic sites or version control from what I can see. At a minimum, it'd be nice to be able to have a first-class embeded webkit browser as one of the options for the frame/panes but the closest they come is a preview – which works really hard to only render the file you're working on (but does include a small URL field). The big new feature is MySQL integration? Clearly they had a very specific user persona in mind – and I don't really know who that is... but I think they're from ~5-10 years ago. I think I'll pass, honestly... sadly. I hope I'm just missing something because this was an update I wanted to see.