I have the feeling that many people who dislike this have never really worked with a static typing language. I have never really worked with anything except perl, php, javascript myself until a couple of years ago when i got into game programming with Unity3D using C# and Visual Studio. That experience was enlightening, VS (+ReSharper) is like your own personal AI assistant that deeply understands your code and helps you work more efficiently. Today, while working mostly with JS again (node/angular) i sometimes feel frustrated about WebStorms inability to do the right thing because it just can't understand the code in the way it could if JS was static typed. I mean, its still far superior to a pure text editor if you are working with large codebases imo, but i somehow miss the VS experience.
