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BBEdit vs Coda 2: What are the differences?

Developers describe BBEdit as "A proprietary text editor for macOS". It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data. On the other hand, Coda 2 is detailed as "A proprietary web development application for macOS". It is a fast, clean, and powerful text editor used to code for the web. It has a Pixel-perfect preview. It has a built-in way to open and manage your local and remote files.

BBEdit and Coda 2 can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.

ThymeShare, Tuff Truck Challenge, and Smarter Agent Mobile are some of the popular companies that use Coda 2, whereas BBEdit is used by LIVE IT, AppUp.io, and Sourcegraph. Coda 2 has a broader approval, being mentioned in 9 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to BBEdit, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Pros of BBEdit
Pros of Coda 2
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    Support for character encodings and file formats
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    Flexible project file management
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    Snippets functionality includes substitutions
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    Highly extensible (plugins, text filters, etc)
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    Superb regex find/replace
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    Live sib-by-side Preview
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    Built-in #transmit File Transfer
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    OSX native App
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    Panic software - what's more to say?

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What is BBEdit?

It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data.

What is Coda 2?

It is a fast, clean, and powerful text editor used to code for the web. It has a Pixel-perfect preview. It has a built-in way to open and manage your local and remote files.

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What are some alternatives to BBEdit and Coda 2?
TextMate
TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
Atom
At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
UltraEdit
It is a powerful, fast, and secure text editor whose helpful features make every day life easier for any user type and programming language. Windows, Mac, Linux.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
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