To add to this statement:

Doesn't matter what one's personal preference is, as an industry trend, I recognize that languages with nice IDE attract programmers and their leaders/managers much easier.

Developer tools that speed up development make developers happy. If I can use a tool that helps me move functions around, great. It saves me time w/ refactoring. Autocomplete is nice, 'cause though I type 80wpm, I can't remember every (*&$#@ function name in some languages, like php, or java.

POD is neat 'cause it's anywhere-readble documentation so long as it's written. JavaDoc requires a webbrowser or an IDE. Fun fun fun if you are using only vim. Yes, i've done java on the command line, no it was for tweaking things.