Don't get me wrong, I've only dealt with PICs so I am by no means an AVR fan boy. Companies where a few thousand dollars for a compiler is a formality are exempt from this rant, although they kind of perpetuate the problem by forking over the cash. I also don't think that "go mess with assembly if you want optimizations" is a good answer either since you would expect a hardware manufacturer to make their hardware as accessable to everyone as possible. I'm sure they have made enough money back from their purchase of the HI-TECH C compilers already. Begin rant Let's face it, Microchip should release their XC8 compilers and stick to the hardware business. How does the XC8 compiler compare in terms of optimizations? Does microchip plan on dropping support for the free AVR compilers with Atmel Studio and not including them in MPLAB X in hopes that people are forced to buy their stupid expensive compilers if they want better optimizations? When I first heard that AVR support was coming to MPLAB X was great since it meant a proper IDE for AVR in Linux but now it's a little terrifying. I find it hilarious because no one is going to buy XC8 pro for something that already has pretty good compilers. I was looking through Microchip's website and I realized that XC8 PRO ( the not-free and expensive version of Microchip's 8 bit compiler) is a thing for AVR with the new AVR support in MPLAB X.
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