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Coda 2 vs Emacs: What are the differences?
Coda 2: 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; Emacs: The extensible self-documenting text editor. GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing.
Coda 2 and Emacs belong to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack.
Webedia, Flexport, and Edify are some of the popular companies that use Emacs, whereas Coda 2 is used by ThymeShare, Tuff Truck Challenge, and Smarter Agent Mobile. Emacs has a broader approval, being mentioned in 123 company stacks & 474 developers stacks; compared to Coda 2, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
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
Pros of Emacs
- Vast array of extensions65
- Have all you can imagine44
- Everything i need in one place40
- Portability39
- Customer config32
- Your config works on any platform16
- Low memory consumption13
- Perfect for monsters11
- All life inside one program10
- Extendable, portable, fast - all at your fingertips8
- Enables extremely rapid keyboard-only navigation6
- Widely-used keybindings (e.g. by bash)5
- Extensible in Lisp5
- Runs everywhere important5
- FOSS Software4
- Powerful multilanguage IDE4
- Git integration4
- May be old but always reliable4
- Asynchronous3
- Powerful UI3
- Huge ecosystem1
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Cons of Coda 2
Cons of Emacs
- So good and extensible, that one can get sidetracked4
- Hard to learn for beginners4
- Not default preinstalled in GNU/linux1