DSPIC Support

[GeoJoe]

I mangaged to get my project running with assembler. It took a lot of effort and time. In fact, I hated it.
I guess what I want from a development platform is the security of knowing that I have invested time and money into something that will carry me into the future. Microcontroller technology will continue to grow. I'd like to not learn a new system every time a new controller comes out. I'd rather concentrate on implementing the advanced features of the micro. That's better than de-bugging new code. Does anyone think that new micro's get a bad rap for some time when they come out (Silicon bugs aside) because people don't know how to use them?

[mister_e]

The Microchip C compiler may be free but give real limitation and i'm not a fan of that one... as some here.

In fact, if someone should learn only one language that cover every PIC in the whole Microchip familly and have all the cash to spend on a compiler for support and upgrade, Hi-Tech C PICC Enterprise Edition would be the smart choice. BUT as most here use 12F, 16F,18F and sometime 10F... i bet Melabs PicBasic, or some other, is more than enough.

Assembler is free, but a real pain to code with. Well at least i can't imagine to do some 32K or more ONLY in assembler