Hopefully this new, super-secret vaporware (oops vectorware) works better than this http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.a...mpage=1#576676

Hi - I have just downloaded and tested Beta 6 after not using MPLAB X for some time due to its useability.

I still find that the product is still not really useable. It is very slow in debugging and stepping, does not allow debugging of interrupt service routines and is pretty unstable.

I personally do not feel that this platform will ever be a replacement for the present MPLAB IDE due to the inherent problems with NetBeans. If A new editor was slotted into MPLAB IDE 8 it would probably be a far better route than MPLAB X.