In terms of "pointing out stupid mistakes to you before you try to compile/run your code", which is a very important IDE feature in terms of not wasting your ti

In terms of "pointing out stupid mistakes to you before you try to compile/run your code", which is a very important IDE feature in terms of not wasting your time, you can go pretty far with syntastic[1]. This does not help with verbose languages which need autocompletion (you know the ones I'm talking about), managing import lists or automated refactoring, but it's still really good to have. 1: https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic