What IDE to choose ?

[Interprog]

with new Plugin 1.0.5 it is faster, for me

[sarah90]

I use a mix of geany under linux as this gives me a very good editing experience and mplab in windows 7 running in virtualbox for compiling and flashing.

Mplab has the best support for the pickit3 and the usb support of virtualbox makes it possible to use it in a virutal machine. However I don't like the the mplab editors so I use geany for that.

I tried using mplabx but I found it unstable and huge, so I will keep using my virutal setup until they phase out mplab.

[metal]

I think MPLABX is excellent, and it is rather stable (these days v1.5), I don't see any reason not use it, large is no longer a reason to escape a software. Microchip is phasing out MPLAB, the next release of Microchip Applications Library will not contain MPLAB project files :- )

[sarah90]

I am aware that mplab will be phased out in the near future and I should move on, but my setup is working for me. Microchip is still releasing updates to mplab, so I think (thought ?) I have still some time. However, the last time I checked up on mplapx is already several months ago and my opinion is based on that. I will definitely look into it again.