Hello Gary,I looked at the mbed before I chose the Netduino, but why would you want to program online when you can download visual studio express for free?
While I can see the benefit for mac users (I'm one), losing the ease and ability of visual studio, especially the debugging to use an online tool would defeat the purpose of programming for the Netduino. I use parallels and win7 under OSX, works great (though I'd love the netduino to talk to processing running on OSX of course )
Gary
I don't speak about managed code (C#, VS is perfect), but for native code ( C ),
For native code you have choice between GNU, RVDS, or others expensive compiler,
This is to rebuild NETMF firmware,
GNU produced firmware is to big to fit flash memory, especialy for Netduino Plus,
And RVDS cost multiple thousands of dollars !!!
So, a online compiler like mbed could be a great alternative for netduino user,
Pascal