Home › Forums › Microcontrollers › PIC Microcontroller › MPLAB vs Hi-Tech C vs XC8 Tagged: Hi-Tech C, MPLAB, PIC, XC8 This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 5 years, 10 months ago by Ligo George. Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) Author Posts October 25, 2017 at 9:23 pm #13926 Dilshan N. WickramarachchiParticipant Hello guys, I wish to learn about PIC programming via MPLAB. There are many compiler in MP lab such as Hi-Tech C, XC8 and so on. Can someone please explain the differences between each compilers and when to use them. Thank you! Dilshan December 21, 2018 at 5:07 pm #15799 Ligo GeorgeKeymaster MPLAB is an IDE while Hi-Tech C and XC8 are compilers. Hi-Tech is deprecated compilers provided by Microchip. Latest version is XC8. Author Posts Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in The reCAPTCHA verification period has expired. Please reload the page. Log In