Quote Originally Posted by tonyfelloni View Post
I currently use Microcode and find it ok but would like the opinion of someone more experienced so that I dont have to chop and change later down the road (we are creatures of habit after all!)
This microcontroller\programming lark is a mine field at the start!
MCS is good...very good. 'Connects' to PBP, starts/runs the compiler, assembler, handles files, highlights PBP keywords and/or errors...and so on and so on...

MPLAB is also good. But it's more like a souped up version of Notepad when compared to MCS.

I wouldn't worry about it. Go with MCS for now. If MCS ever falls out of favor, it wouldn't take hardly any 'relearning' to go with something else since MCS uses practically all of the usual Windows commands (Ctrl-C = copy, Ctrl-V = paste, and so on).

And it works in Linux under Wine