Hey,
just a week ago I discovered Energia on hackaday and was very happy to see that I'm not the only one who loves the Launchpad idea but doesn't really want to install CCS or a whole lot of development tools just to get started. I think Energia really opens a new way for beginners to get into programming one of those MSP430 chips.
Until now I experienced no problems at all using the Energia IDE, which is quite impressive in my opinion. I think Robert did an amazing job porting all the Arduino features to a tiny little 4.30$ dev tool.
The only thing I noticed was the different theme co