ESP8266 Community Forum

- Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:51 pm #56395 I'm new to the ESP8266, but I've been using Microsoft's VS-Code successfully with the UNO-R3. It uses Arduino.exe in a task-worker to compile and upload. There are great extensions for both C++ and Arduino in the VSCode market place.
Check ...
https://github.com/fabienroyer/VisualStudioCodeArduino

- Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:45 pm #56436

I'm new to the ESP8266, but I've been using Microsoft's VS-Code successfully with the UNO-R3. It uses Arduino.exe in a task-worker to compile and upload. There are great extensions for both C++ and Arduino in the VSCode market place.
Check ...
https://github.com/fabienroyer/VisualStudioCodeArduino

At first I was like: Hey, that looks like a Atom knock-off.. (It isn't, it's just built on the same framework [which spawned from the Atom project]).

It actually looks good, but I'll probably stick with Atom (especially when I'm up and running with it now!). It seems a bit easier to get started with ESP8266 (and/or Android) with Atom (PlatformIO is good!) than with Code.

But thanks for the tip!

- Thu Oct 13, 2016 8:12 pm #56487 I tried to use eclipse but it crashes after 2 or times I compile something.
I am using Atom and it works fine.
I just wish to know if I can use the esp8266 sdk with it's C api, because there are more functions.

I mean the apis documented here:
https://espressif.com/en/support/download/documents

Thanks for any help.