...Surely, you realize the irony of your position, no? One could easily replace "IDE" with "Programming paradigm [X]" and you'd suddenly be the exact person you were railing against in your original post..

How about this.. both have their merits..? Static typed languages do benefit from a good IDE. That said, I personally prefer the cleanness of Sublime Text over a proper IDE -- even at the expense of having to write my own getters and setters! Doesn't mean the other is antithetical to productivity.

Let's end this senseless arguing and just agree that PHP is terrible.