So I’m doing a test drive of Coda because work just gave me a nice shiny MacBook Pro. So far it’s cool, but the most interesting thing I found about Coda is it’s website. They use the tagline “Grow Beautiful Code”. Beautiful code? Huh?
It feels like there is a paradigm shift going on in the development community. New editors are very zen-like (the Coda site is very well designed with a web 2.0 feel). It’s all about simplicity and cleanliness.
I really think part of this was started by Ruby on Rails. The marketing and hype surrounding RoR is phenomenal, it’s all about programmer happiness and productivity. I haven’t been in the development community for more than about 2 years, but I have a good feeling that if you went back 5-10 years, you wouldn’t see anything like this about editors, frameworks or programming languages.
We are becoming increasingly focused in productivity, programmer happiness and beautiful code. The mindset of programmers is moving above the simple act of programming to something higher. We are moving up the the Maslow hierarchy of needs for programmers.
