Coda First Impressions

Coda, the new web development app from Panic is out. I’ve just downloaded the demo and, even though I’m a committed Textmate fan, I’m sorely tempted.

Highlights

1. A visual regular expression creator built into the find-and-replace toolbar
2. Elegant CSS editor, reminiscent of CSSEdit, and, in a weird way, Textpattern
3. They made their own font for the editor!
4. Integrated SFTP

Update

Well, I can see myself using this to build a bunch of sites that I’d otherwise try a CMS for.

Also, I thought’d I’d crawl the web for some more first impressions.

• Programmer’s overview
• App designer’s overview
• Ars Forum responses
• Textdrive Forum responses