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When I played around with ESP32 when it just came out, the problem was that the toolchains and software just weren't done yet. There were a lot of features that
by yarcob 6y ago
When I played around with ESP32 when it just came out, the problem was that the toolchains and software just weren't done yet. There were a lot of features that existed on hardware, but without toolchain support, docs, or sample code it was close to impossible to use them.
I'm not sure how it works now, but especially for newer stuff I wouldn't rely on the fact that the hardware claims to support something -- if the software isn't there, it just doesn't really mean much.
- dls2016 6y agoI'm not familiar with other microcontrollers, but ESP-IDF seems to be very actively developed. I bought a wESP32 a few months ago and initially couldn't figure out how to enable ethernet... came back after some ESP-IDF updates and had it working in 10 minutes. But you are probably correct about the latest chips.
- gh02t 6y agoESP-IDF is super friendly, I was amazed how easy it was to get it set up and configured compared to my experience with some other embedded toolchains I've used before.