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Ok, it's non only simply the best.
It's easy to use, fun, complete, cheap, smart, beautiful, light and fast.
IMHO it's an optimus app.

waaaay overpriced. It's all eye candy (and not that special still). There are many better apps that are freeware or you can simply use finder and disk utility for most of the things.

If you want a powerful burning app forget this and get toast which is lightyears ahead of this and anything else.

I'm amazed that on one hand the vast majority of the comments here are negative, yet the app scores nearly 1500 'iusethis'. Is it all hype? I don't know. I use it, but to be fair only on rare occasions. I just like the simplicity of the interface.

Bwa? A maintenance update? The dead lives!

Bwa? An update? The mind boggles.

ok, so let's be honest - it's very little more than a dressed up version of burn.app, so when you buy it, you expect it to be pretty. right out of the gate, i can't get the interactive smoke to work on either my imac (santa rosa) or my macbook pro (also santa rosa). both should be WAY more than sufficient for whatever graphic requirements smoke has, yet it works on neither. i've tried for nearly two weeks w/5 emails to get support to RESPOND AND ACKNOWLEDGE my problem, and they haven't.

to clarify - smoke works, but it's the two-color non-interactive variety. works fine w/1.0.1 on the same machine, just not 1.0.3

save your money.

it does not work as advertised (still bugs in some of the features like smoke and disk spanning) and the developer will not respond to support questions. A very minor maintence update took over a year and didn't even address these known issues. Skip this one (and all his stuff) as its clear his stuff is 1.0 only and no further development.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS
It's got issues, and support is nowhere to be found. I emailed them on 4/25/08 about burning bootable ISOs to disc, and then they won't boot. No response. I wrote again on 5/5/08 to prompt them to please respond. Nothing.

Not worth the $20, really.

Too expensive, but good for pro web developers

Using Coda is an absolute treat.

Besides being very nice to look at, it has just the right amount of features to be incredibly useful without being bloated. I think the price is definitely worth it...but then I do use the program everyday.

Coda is aimed at the Pro web development market, who is going to do all their code by hand. $79 is a bargain for all you get with Coda, and is quite reasonably priced for a tool of this caliber. I use it every day, and it makes building websites a much cleaner process.

Version 2 will probably be wonderful, but currently Coda just lacks too many basic features to be a genuine replacement for TextMate. The interface is gorgeous, and its local/remote file management is a delight, but the lack of a proper site-wide find/replace kills it for me.

For now I'll carry on with TextMate and Transmit, but I'll look back in on Coda when the next major revision drops.

A well-designed piece of software that will certainly streamline your workflow. The text editor is not as feature-rich as textmate and the current editor is also a bit more buggy than I would have liked for a $79 purchase - occasionally my view turns into a bunch of garbage characters. But it's a harmless inconvenience and the occasional restart doesn't detract from my experience too much. 99% of the time it's saving me time and allowing me to focus on coding.

I already use textmate but I find Coda seem pretty cool, should I buy it?

I'm a pro web developer, who does all my sites by hand, and it is absolutely worth the price. A pleasure to work with. I was one of the people who use to use transmit + textmate, but this is a much better experience. A must buy for any pro.

I guess your right there, the trial period is going out in a couple of days and I'm going to buy it as x-mas gift for myself

happy holidays everyone *<:)

Like others have said, Coda's a treat to use. As a professional web developer, I can say Coda is easily worth the money. The preview and CSS editors are throwaway features, but nice to have anyways.

For the developer on a budget, check out skEdit instead. Has a lot of the same features, but in a less pretty package.

I've never liked TextMate... I find it too generic for the type of work I do.

I use Coda every single day. It's a gorgeous app and it's made by an extremely responsive company. That said, it's just missing quite a lot of features for that $79 price tag.

1. No dedicated (live) preview window. Sure CSS Edit has spoiled me, but this is a great feature and I'd like to be able to see what I'm working on. Coda simply isn't built for dual monitors.

2. No site-wide find and replace. You can only search and replace items on your opened document.

3. The DOM inspector is pretty useless. Highlighting your code doesn't highlight the element in preview, nor does selecting in the DOM inspector highlight your code.

Coda is good but it could be much, much better.

I just bought it, but I'm still wishig for this:

1.) Faster and automatic refresh in the Preview window (already said)

2.) Remembering opened windows and their settings when you quit/reopen the app.

3.) Sported mouse-wheel support for rolling/editing values like in CSS Edit.

4.) Added the same Preview/Code Switch button in the lower left corner of the window, in the Edit window, as there is in Preview window.

5.) Speed!!! Try to achieve same speed as CSS Edit.

Hands down, the best tool for hand-coding websites on any platform. Been using it since the private beta and it just gets better and better with each release. It sits in my workflow alongside Dreamweaver CS4 and CSSEdit.