The pickit guy was giving the other dev tools people at Microchip a run for their money for a long time, implementing the features of the fancier debuggers and

The pickit guy was giving the other dev tools people at Microchip a run for their money for a long time, implementing the features of the fancier debuggers and more, like a simple logic analyzer. My impression was it was basically one engineer or a very small team implementing the pickit who took the opportunity to make it a tour de force. Recommended, if it will do what you need.