1 MPLAB Development Ecosystem

The MPLAB Development Ecosystem is part of Microchip’s MCU Development Tool Ecosystem. It consists of an IDE, supported compilers, code configurators, programmers/debuggers, and other integrated tools. For new projects, MPLAB Tools for VS Code is recommended to take advantage of the latest updates and features from Microchip. This section provides a comparison of using MPLAB X IDE and MPLAB Tools for VS Code. For a comparative list of features, refer to Appendix A.

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