[brennyb]

"Using an IDE is not a solution" same arguments, same counter arguments. An abstraction being leaky does not mean it's useless. You will always need to drop down a layer occasionally, but there's value in not having to live on the lower layer all the time.

[lmm]

The difference being that when your IDE makes a mistake you can understand and debug it, and maybe even patch it to fix it (or failing that at least understand what triggers it and work around it).