Peter Cohen, The Loop:
Panic, makers of Transmit, Unison and other products, announced Monday the forthcoming release of Coda 2, a new version of their Web editor for Mac OS X. They also introduced Diet Coda, a companion software app for the iPad. Both are coming Thursday, May 24th.
I love Coda - like love love. I certainly code websites with Coda, but I also use it for my scientific work, including LaTeX, Fortran, Python, and more. It is a wonderful development environment. The update looks massive and seems to address all of the shortcomings voiced by users. I will buy Coda 2 on day one.
I have long used Panic’s iPad SSH client, Prompt. If Diet Coda is anything close to the quality of Prompt (I assume so), I will buy that without thinking. Given its description, I foresee Diet Coda replacing Textastic and Prompt as my iPad development environment. I think the feature I am most looking forward to is AirPreview, which allows you to use the iPad as a live-preview screen while coding on the desktop.
May 24th can’t come soon enough.