> That's a nice thing in some ways, but my guess is that when you try and edit, say, Erlang or something else, those big IDE's are just going to sputter and fla

> That's a nice thing in some ways, but my guess is that when you try and edit, say, Erlang or something else, those big IDE's are just going to sputter and flail because they're outside their comfort zone. Yup, as much as I like Emacs and dislike IDEs, I fire up Eclipse without hesitation if I need to work on some Java code. Java just begs you to use an IDE because (1) It is incredibly cumbersome and (2) It's very nature make it possible to create powerful IDEs, that's not the case for most languages.