I don't understand how anyone can tolerate coding without an interactive debugger.
I don't understand how programmers can be zealously religious about emacs and Vi, but hey that's programmers for ya. :-)
I found nothing wrong with it, I used visual C++ express, about 6 years ago. It was pretty good, underlined things I got wrong etc. I think a few months after I noticed I kept getting red lines, like the way I was coding seemed like I was expecting it to pick up the slack which I didn't like, I felt lazy.
Since sticking to a text editor and console error messages I've found my programming improved and I became less lazy with my code. Maybe that's just me, all programmers are different, that's what's so great about it o me. It also gave me little project ideas, like the one stated in another one of my posts. I am working on a bracket matcher soon, when I get some of the theory down. Wish me luck.