[progLiker]

I'd definetively say that the Unix environment are fun to have around as a platform for programming almost any modern programming language.

Eclipse with its basic features for java development are fun. When you have learnt how to exploit the features and learnt to live with it's limitations, it's at least not getting in your way. But I guess you can say that about most Ide's when you have learnt it well and grasped an understanding of what you can and can not do with it. So now I fire up an Ide for the project and management off and do the hardcore editing in Vim, leveraging the best of the two worlds. And are having fun too.

The day's for the "one size fits" all may be gone.

I think they days for small beautiful fun to use languages are finally gone with the end of Moore's Law. Everything will become more complex to deal with. Thinks the trick to leverage the fun for a project is to use different environment for different contexts of the project, and create tools for dealing with your specific needs.