Well, currently embroiled in an XMEGA project....
...for which I've had to learn Atmel's Studio 7, and worked with the free compilers, which are adequate, I looked at Microchip's offering.
Seems their licence depends on what part family you're using (8,16 or 32-bit), but turns out about €500 for ONE user, ONE year, ONE architecture. Atmel gives me 8 and 32 bit AVR, and all their ARM stuff - free.
Microchip's strategy would put me off a future upgrade for sure.
So, no thanks, MPLAB.
I'm sticking with Atmel, at least as long as their new Overchipped Microlords will let me...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
