...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.
The even bigger irony is that people using terrible languages and paradigms, like PHP and the original Visual Basic, have historically gotten things done, even if that meant shoving a square through a round whole :-)
I guess the curse of "enlightened" people might be that we think way too much about such things.
I think PHP and the original VB were actually great platforms. At the pure language level they were not elegant (but good enough), but both were not just languages, but a platform which as a whole were great for developing a specific kind of apps.
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.