I've had exactly the experience you describe, although it's not from IDE use in my case -- it's from coffeescript and livescript. I bombed a JS interview about

I've had exactly the experience you describe, although it's not from IDE use in my case -- it's from coffeescript and livescript. I bombed a JS interview about six months ago because they wanted to sit in the room and watch my screen while I took their test (already problematic, in my opinion, but let's pretend I would have taken the job.) What clinched the deal I'm sure was when I couldn't remember if it was .length or .length(), started to Google it, realized I looked like an idiot, wasting time because none of my bookmarks were on the laptop I'd been handed, etc. etc. You see, I usually write in the functional style, so my code seldom has to ask arrays about their sizes, and when it does, it uses '[*]'. When I was back in for-loop land, I spoke like a for-eigner...