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Alefal
Alefal
Associate II
May 15, 2026
Question

Recommended toolchain/IDE with MX2

  • May 15, 2026
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Hello,


I was using CubeMX with CubeIDE and since the release of CubeMX2, VSCode is promoted as the go-to.
At the same time, CubeIDE got an update to importe Cmake project.

What are the plans ?
Will MX2 continue to support CubeIDE with Cmake only ? Will CubeIDE project exports be added to MX2?
Or will VSCode be the main target for MX2?

In sumary, which workflow will be the best for future dev since ST seems to refactor its whole ecosystem ?

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    Pavel A.
    Pavel A.
    Super User
    May 16, 2026

    VS Code surely looks like the to-go option for your new STM32C5 projects (since you don't have legacy HAL2/MX2 projects).

    Because of all these AI integrations, GitHub codespaces and CMake. 

    Eclipse obviously is easier, but these days, all the good familiar things disappear, ugly and weird things come instead : -(

    About workflows: vibe coding with AI-assisted testing/debugging agents is the trend.  Tell it what you need, wire the board to the computer for the automation, and get your software in almost no time. You even don't need to know the HAL, cmake, RTOSes and so on.

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