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GNU Emacs vs MPLAB IDE

A side-by-side look at GNU Emacs and MPLAB IDE. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs

Development

GNU Emacs is a popular, open source text editor and computing environment. It runs on most operating systems and provides extensibility through an Emacs Lisp interpreter.

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MPLAB IDE

MPLAB IDE

Development

MPLAB IDE is an integrated development environment for Microchip's PIC and dsPIC microcontrollers. It is free software that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS, and allows developers to write, compile and debug firmware code for Microchip microcontrollers.

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