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I'm just looking for alternative options to work with ESP8266, but without Arduino IDE. Preferably - Eclipse (without Arduino plugins).
Could you advise please what will more suitable SDKs compatible with Eclipse?
I have found some advises over YouTube (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdA4Yx9-EpQ) and on Google
that I have to use Native SDK which is shipped on VM. At the same time I don't want to use VM - due to it's slowness
Alternate advises are suggesting to use 2 SDKs (Native SDK + Open SDK). Is there more easier way to use ESP8266 on Eclipse without VM?

I use Visual Studio Code. It's free and can be used to create projects for pretty much any board.

It's nice because you create a new project and it adds all the project files, makes it easy to link libraries etc. Just install VSCode, and then install the PlatformIO extension, and you'll never touch Arduino IDE again.

https://code.visualstudio.com/ -- oh, and you can also use it to code Python, PHP, JavaScript, NodeJs, C++, ...etc, etc, etc...best multiplatform environment around.