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I may not had to much nerves to just wrestle the initial learning curve, but my experience for PlatformIO was so bad that I do not plan to touch it ever again..

I may not had to much nerves to just wrestle the initial learning curve, but my experience for PlatformIO was so bad that I do not plan to touch it ever again... All you need is a compiler, a flash tool and maybe (nice to have but for a lot of stuff not a requirement) a JTAG debugger, so why the heck does I need that half baked, overly complex monster of pseudo IDE? The tooling shown by ESP-rs seems nice and simple, I like that way more.

stavros 5y ago
PlatformIO doesn't have an IDE, it's a dependency/compilation/flashing manager, and is fantastic. There's also PlatformIO IDE, which I've never used.
jeroenhd 5y ago
To be fair to PIO, when I used another chip (an ESP8266) the entire process was plug and play. Just install the VS Code extension, follow the wizard, and you can start with an Arduino-compatible system loop that just works. Adding libraries is easy and intuitive, as is keeping them up to date. If you need to manually configure the tool for your devices, well... I haven't figured out how to configure it for my ESP32C3 yet, so that's not as easy as I'd hoped.