Mplab x ide

[mister_e]

I don't know much about NetBeans I'm sorry. But I know Sun officially support it since a year or so. I still think Eclipse is a decent plateform, but I also think they lost control of it. That's my personal feeling. I haven't check their latest version to satisfy my curiosity.

I'm not sure why Microchip do it though. If they choose an open-source, they don't really need to fully support it either.

I feel they're sick and tired to hear people moaning because they can't access to ANY feature of MPLAB without having to go through their NDA process. Grant some access to your IDE, and hop, you'll see plugins poping here and there each and everyday. I doubt they will give a full access (if any) to their debugger & Sim, so MPLAB would probably be around for awhile again.

It looks like an easy task to create an IDE... but it's not. Worst when you know that nobody wants the same thing, nobody work the same way and people always ask for more. Only the code editor & parser + text highlightning is a pain to create... worst if you want to implement a full features code editor such as Microsoft Visual Studio one. AST theory is simple on paper only