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While I’ll no doubt get lots of flames from Rob about this, I’m not afraid of saying that Drupal sucks as it is right now. That’s not to say it’s not getting better (for sure, it is) but a lot of problems that I and others have with Drupal stem from some poor basic design choices, which would require a stupendous amount of work to fix. Hiveminds Magazine covers a few reasons for why Drupal isn’t as good as it could be.

'Nuff said, but you'd probably like to know why I say this in my curmudgeonly fashion. First of all, a disclaimer: Text editors with highlight support do not an IDE make, even if they give you a task pane of files. Second, I'm writing this from a Windows perspective; any PHP IDEs that don't run on Windows are useless to me.