Comment by Peaker

I disagree wholeheartedly.

Ruby uses runtime name resolution. When you use a name "x", it is impossible (in the general case) to figure out what the name refers to statically.

Thus, in Ruby and other dynamic languages, there's much less an IDE can do. Even renaming a variable is an undecidable problem in these languages.

I know plenty of experienced/talented C/C++ programmers, and most of them prefer to use IDE's despite recognizing some of the weaknesses of contemporary IDE's. I've been programming C for 15 years (of these, 10 were professionally) and I would love to use a good IDE.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a good IDE yet and so I make do with emacs. But the moment I find a good IDE with usable refactoring tools while still retaining emacs-level keyboard macros and other useful features of emacs, I'll switch.