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What languages would you say have definitely better tooling: I'd say for sure the .NET languages, C++, Java, and Javascript but I'd put Scala just at a level below that, no? The tooling stories for Go, Rust, Haskell I don't think are as strong (yet), but that's definitely going to change though.

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Not parent, but I would reduce it down to

- C# with VisualStudio + JetBrains addon

- Java with IntelliJ

Why not the others you mentioned?

- IDE support for F# is not very good.

- VB is too dynamically typed to be reliable.

- C++ IDEs seem to be constantly fighting with constructs that manage to break the IDE's understanding of the code. It's gotten better with LLVM, but even VisualStudio is far away from providing a reliable experience.

- JavaScript is dynamically typed, so IDE support is not reliable.

- VB.NET support is at the same level as C#

- F# does lack some Microsoft love, but Visual F# Power Tools does improve the experience a lot

- Netbeans and Visual Studio 2015 are quite good in JavaScript support, specially on code where JsDoc comments are available

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