[noir_lord]

I agree with your about language specific IDE's however the exceptions are sometimes very good.

I use intellij, it has intelligent support for Python, JavaScript (including node), SQL, HTML, CSS and PHP all working out the box with very little setup required, its the sheer integration of things.

I'm aware I could get close with emacs (except frankly its web modes suck) but I'd have to find all those bits myself, integrate them and hope that it wasn't fragile (you know updated fizz which was a dependency of too but bar uses a different version) and at the end I'd still have what I would regard as an inferior less cohesive tool.

There are no absolutes in matters of taste and that's what it is I think.