Ability to pay per MCU License.

[mpgmike]

Also produces less or equal sized code and same speed as C.

So, why look for other environment? You have a compiler that works fine, asks for nothing and gives you solid code to run.

Ioannis

XC8 has several Optimization levels, PBP has one (as good as it gets). PBP Hex file competes nicely with the highest optimization level for XC8 for both speed of execution and memory usage.