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Mbed end of life announcement

ntewinkel

I just got an email from Mbed this morning, announcing they will stop supporting the tech in 2026.

https://forums.mbed.com/t/important-update-on-mbed-end-of-life/23644

I have an Mbed board, and I quite liked it and the platform, but I have to admit I never did much with it, and I mostly stopped using MBED shortly after checking it out.

One of their reasons is that Arduino, etc now covers the things MBED was built to solve. I’m guessing those boards are now programmable with the Arduino IDE?

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  • The idea was good, in my opinion, but probably got lost in implementation.

    I remember trying an LED blinking "Hello World" project on MBED 5, which had 50 kB (half of my STM32L0's flash memory). The worst part was, I could see with my eyes, that the blinking is not regular. Somehow scheduler and probably another tasks (I didn't want any) was overloading an MCU at 32 MHz. 

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  • The idea was good, in my opinion, but probably got lost in implementation.

    I remember trying an LED blinking "Hello World" project on MBED 5, which had 50 kB (half of my STM32L0's flash memory). The worst part was, I could see with my eyes, that the blinking is not regular. Somehow scheduler and probably another tasks (I didn't want any) was overloading an MCU at 32 MHz. 

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  • in reply to koudelad

    I think it was more than a good idea. It was a good OO layer for object oriented embedded design. They managed to get right abstractions to deal with microcontroller hardware.

    It was never intended as an enabler layer for Arduino. 

  • in reply to koudelad

    Mbed 5 was cleverly hacked together, IMHO, and then hoped that community input would rectify the inconsistencies and optimise the compile process. It never quite happened. Some boards worked better than others. With Mbed 6 the structure improved, allowing for good OO design and, if you knew what to do, could optimise the low level stuff too. It had matured and had the makings of something great.