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Coda 2 vs Vim: What are the differences?
Developers describe Coda 2 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. On the other hand, Vim is detailed as "Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing". Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
Coda 2 and Vim belong to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack.
According to the StackShare community, Vim has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1159 company stacks & 5672 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 Vim
- Comes by default in most unix systems (remote editing)347
- Fast328
- Highly configurable312
- Less mouse dependence297
- Lightweight247
- Speed145
- Plugins100
- Hardcore97
- It's for pros82
- Vertically split windows65
- Open-source30
- Modal editing25
- No remembering shortcuts, instead "talks" to the editor22
- It stood the Test of Time21
- Unicode16
- VimPlugins13
- Everything is on the keyboard13
- Stick with terminal13
- Dotfiles12
- Flexible Indenting11
- Hands stay on the keyboard10
- Efficient and powerful10
- Programmable10
- Everywhere9
- Large number of Shortcuts9
- A chainsaw for text editing8
- Unmatched productivity8
- Developer speed7
- Super fast7
- Makes you a true bearded developer7
- Because its not Emacs7
- Modal editing changes everything7
- You cannot exit6
- Themes6
- EasyMotion5
- Most and most powerful plugins of any editor5
- Shell escapes and shell imports :!<command> and !!cmd5
- Intergrated into most editors5
- Shortcuts5
- Great on large text files5
- Habit5
- Plugin manager options. Vim-plug, Pathogen, etc5
- Intuitive, once mastered4
- Perfect command line editor4
- Not MicroSoft1
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Cons of Coda 2
Cons of Vim
- Ugly UI8
- Hard to learn5
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