In line with what you said, the syntactic sugar of Ruby is what put me off. Having a good IDE like Visual Studio is nice, but I find myself working in ST3 or L

In line with what you said, the syntactic sugar of Ruby is what put me off. Having a good IDE like Visual Studio is nice, but I find myself working in ST3 or LightTable often, so its not essential. As long as I can build from my editor, I'm happy.