I've had mostly negative experiences with them. With a DSL-driven BDD framework (like rspec) you get autocomplete and debugging and every other language featur

I've had mostly negative experiences with them. With a DSL-driven BDD framework (like rspec) you get autocomplete and debugging and every other language feature without really losing any of the descriptiveness. With cucumber you get lots of pain in both those areas, without anything that feels like an improvement along another metric.