Free alternative to MPLAB (PIC development)

Question

I started using MPLAB recently, but for someone that works with Eclipse and VS the IDE it\'s very limited. Do you know any free IDE or how to configure Ecplise or Netbeans to PI

Answer 1

You should definitely switch to MPLAB X. Be warned though that it is a beta release.

Nonetheless it promises to rid us of both windows and the very buggy MPLAB 8.x (I'm not sure about the latter, though). It is a welcome step. I was sifting through their "Getting Started With MPLAB X" slides a little while earlier. In one of the slide it says that they chose NetBeans based IDE over an Eclipse based one because "NetBeans is acknowledged by many as being: More advanced, Less bloated, Faster and More intuitive". I have worked with both of these and I think Eclipse is far superior in about every arena.