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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.
Pros of BBEdit
- Support for character encodings and file formats1
- Flexible project file management1
- Snippets functionality includes substitutions1
- Highly extensible (plugins, text filters, etc)1
- Superb regex find/replace1
Pros of Coda 2
- Live sib-by-side Preview1
- Built-in #transmit File Transfer1
- OSX native App1
- Panic software - what's more to say?1