It's even harder to take "The IDE should make up for deficiencies in the language" seriously. In languages that handle this stuff well, you can edit in Notepad and still not make these mistakes. Why push it up several levels to a few specific IDEs that most people don't even use?

> Why push it up several levels to a few specific IDEs that most people don't even use?

Because those IDEs those solve problems, so that you can close tickets on the project at hand, without having to port it to the best language evar.