[sdiy] MPLAB-X alternative

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From: "Roman Sowa" <modular at go2.pl>

 > I will not elaborate why MPLAB-X is a pile of unusable crap, let's say
 > I'd rather give up PICs in total than use it.

This was exactly the motivation for my recent use of STM8. If it makes 
you feel any better, the tools for the STM8 are not great either (at 
least the Cosmic compiler and STVD IDE). The code generated is HUGE and 
the IDE crashed several times, once eating a file I was working on. Oh, 
and the SWIM interface is "OK" at best. But at least when it was working 
I had fairly modern tool debugging-wise. And the tools still rely on 
JRE. But hey, a week or so later I have a working SP4T illuminated 
pushbutton that uses almost all of the part's 8K of code space. OK, 
perhaps I got carried away with the SP4T's MIDI Implementation. :-)

GB

------ Original Message ------
From: "Roman Sowa" <modular at go2.pl>
To: "Synth-diy" <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
Sent: 3/8/2022 3:30:32 AM
Subject: [sdiy] MPLAB-X alternative

>Can anyone recommend an alternative to Microchip's MPLAB-X?
>All I need is just assembler, simulator, and obviously a way to program
>ICs with ICD3 or anything else.
>I will not elaborate why MPLAB-X is a pile of unusable crap, let's say
>I'd rather give up PICs in total than use it.
>
>And the only reason I tried MPLAB-X, and tried several times, was that
>new devices are not supported in good old MPLAB IDE 8. And the main
>reason I need new PIC devices is because in contrary to old ones they're
>available this year, sometimes even in stock at distributors, and also
>come with more memory and peripherals, not to mention lower price than
>older PICs.
>
>I reckon there's no way to make MPLAN 8 accept new devices by simply
>writing some new config/definition files, huh?
>
>Roman
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