When comparing CodeTasty vs Codepen, the Slant community recommends CodeTasty for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud IDEs?” CodeTasty is ranked 13th while Codepen is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose CodeTasty is:
The website has a beautiful design and is very easy to nagivate and find what you're looking for.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Beautiful, user friendly website
The website has a beautiful design and is very easy to nagivate and find what you're looking for.
Pro Code complete
Best code completion for php, javascript and css.
Pro Smooth
The entire IDE interface is smooth and flexible, making it easy to use for any developer.
Pro Easily export your pen
CodePen makes it really easy to export code as a zip or Github Gist.
Pro Real time output
Pro Lots of support for frameworks and preprocessors
CodePen has an impressive amount of support for preprocessors (such as Jade, Haml, Slim, Sass, Less, Stylus, Coffeescript and PostCSS). There is also plenty of frameworks and libraries to pick from (Foundation, Bootstrap, Angular, D3, Backbone, Ember etc.).
Pro Great display/profile page
The codepen profile page allows you to display all of your public pens, and control which order you want them to be viewed in. This is great for showing off your work to possible employers, other devs etc..
Pro Easily fork pens
To fork a pen only requires clicking one button, and you'll be able to modify the pen on your own account.
Pro Great community pens
You can search through other pens, either by keyword or popular, picked or recent.
Cons
Con Young project
CodeTasty is a fairly new IDE and still has some catching up to do in terms of community size and ironing out bugs.
Con No private pens with free account
There is an option on Codepen for private pens, however it requires upgrading to a Pro account ($9/month).