In my opinion, the main reason for using one or the other is the language in question. For a statically typed language an IDE makes much more sense than for a

In my opinion, the main reason for using one or the other is the language in question. For a statically typed language an IDE makes much more sense than for a dynamically typed one. When PHP got more static typing features over the years I switched to an IDE and it was awesome. When I started using JavaScript in 2011, an IDE didn't help that much.