Re: MPLAB X IDE beta under Linux and Mac OS X
Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:36:20 +0800
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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >> The installer feels alien on the Mac, seems like a Windows app on a Mac with >> that "Next-Next-Next" style installer instead of the "drag-and-drop" style >> one. It is also a bit slowish, I guess because it was written in Java >> instead of native code? > > Yes it is based on Netbean, which is the 2nd most popular IDE after > Eclipse. Should be "2nd most popular Java based IDE after Eclipse". > Microchip seems to like to use the 2nd best solution ;-) > I mean they choose to use MIPS M4k core for PIC32 and not ARM > Cortex M3 which IMHO is a mistake... > -- Xiaofan