The general idea of Coda, unifying document text and calcultion code is very attractive. Jupyter notebooks do something similar in a different Domain. Yet the result in Coda looks much more sleek and polished than Jupyters cells.
A smaller example of programs that go into the same direction would be Soulver (on OSX), NaSc (on Linux) or CalcNote (on Android). Theese three of course have a much smaller feature set and different goals than Coda.
The main culprit I see with Coda is the reliance on one closed source software product maintained by a commercial company with a closed source file format. I think Google (Reader) should have taught us something about relying on software that you don't even remotely control or understand.
Jupyters next iteration, JupyterLab, is giving users more flexibility in terms of screen estate layout, but it will look even more technical instead of more elegant and integrated. Maybe inspiration for further iterations can be drawn from Coda (and good old MathCAD) for a more integrated future version.
Until then staying with Emacs/Spacemacs and org-mode/org-babel gives you the flexibility for output in a lot of different high quality formats AND the guarantee that your carefully crafted documents will be accessible decades in the future.
A smaller example of programs that go into the same direction would be Soulver (on OSX), NaSc (on Linux) or CalcNote (on Android). Theese three of course have a much smaller feature set and different goals than Coda.
The main culprit I see with Coda is the reliance on one closed source software product maintained by a commercial company with a closed source file format. I think Google (Reader) should have taught us something about relying on software that you don't even remotely control or understand.
Jupyters next iteration, JupyterLab, is giving users more flexibility in terms of screen estate layout, but it will look even more technical instead of more elegant and integrated. Maybe inspiration for further iterations can be drawn from Coda (and good old MathCAD) for a more integrated future version.
Until then staying with Emacs/Spacemacs and org-mode/org-babel gives you the flexibility for output in a lot of different high quality formats AND the guarantee that your carefully crafted documents will be accessible decades in the future.