Driven by a motivation to keep busy whilst surviving adverse events in the news, I seem to be getting back into Microchip PIC, after a long absence of interest.
First impressions... wow, these chips can do more than ever.
Second impressions... Eek, the IDE and sample projects, what a mess. What used to be a few hundred lines of assembler in a single source file is now in C, and split between dozens of source files. Many of the C files are machine-generated by an obscure GUI configurator, completely impenetrable.
But I am getting there, managed to make an LED flash this afternoon. All that remains is to think of what on earth I will now do with a PIC, once I have mastered the technology again.