> Unless MicroChip has had a falling out with Oracle (the main supporter of
> NetBeans) I highly doubt MicroChip has any plans to abandon it.
> Arriba seems to be an independent fork of Eclipse, and PIC is only one of
> many architectures they support.  Most likely MicroChip is supporting the
> project for the people who prefer Eclipse over NetBeans.

I suspect it has a lot to do with the difficulties Microchip has had gettin=
g their debuggers to run reliably on a vast mix of system hardware. The wid=
espread reports of people having problems getting Pickit3, ICD3 and Real-Ic=
e to run reliably, while a heap of other people have no problem at all, sug=
gests there is some underlying hiccup they can't get to the bottom of, so t=
hey are going with Arriba to attempt to get around it.
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