I appreciate the cross referencing / browsing / documentation capabilities of a good IDE. (especially if it has a vim plugin so my fingers know what to do) If

I appreciate the cross referencing / browsing / documentation capabilities of a good IDE. (especially if it has a vim plugin so my fingers know what to do) If I uncharitably assume that grunt work means "redundant boilerplate", that sounds like more of a language issue than a tool issue. This said as a Java programmer who has been doing a lot of JavaScript this last year, and REALLY appreciates the brevity. Even if your IDE can generate it, that doesn't mean I want to read it. Java: the language that has to wear a paper bag over its face while it's screwin' ya. :-) (think of all those Eclipse plugins to visualize fugly XML bogo-DSLs and other cruft for The Enterprise -- sure, there are worse languages out there, but not in common use now)