Hi guys,
I'm getting into the electronics (again, I studied a litte some years ago) but also into microcontrollers, but now I face the decition of which one to start with but based on the linux support (not which one is the best).
So let me tell a little about me, I'm on devops (programmer, sysadmin and all that funny stuff) in my work I have a Linux only box, in my home a laptop only with Linux and my desktop that have dual boot but windows is only used to play, all my stuff is on linux (just as a note I don't hate Windows, just love Linux
).
That being said, I'm trying to decice between Pic and Atmel (I know they are both from Microchip) but based on the toolset available for linux.
I found that Atmel have a toolchain with debugger, compiler and stuff, but basically works only from the command line (which I don't really care) and can be integratied with any IDE that suports GDB and external compiler, but also noticed that the Atmel ICE is not very compatible with the Linux tools.
Microchip has the MPLabX (I don't like that they use netbeams, that java stuff sometimes is a little memory consuming) I read that the C compiler is not very optimized and if you want the better one you have to pay.
So, based on your experience, which one have the better toolset/suppoert for Linux?
I'm asking because if I'm going to sped some money in the programmer and stuff I'd like to have at least a nice toolset to play with, also I've done a little with Arduino and I want to go deeper into Micros.
PD.: Excuse my bad english, I'm not a native english speaker.