Installing unofficial development kit for Espressif ESP8266

[Build-A-Burger]

I just started downloading all the stuff to program the ESP8266 on a Windows machine according to the instructions here:
https://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=820

Since I'm more at home on a Linux box, I'm wondering if anyone would know from experience which environment is easier to work with Eclipse (Linux or Windows) before I get too far down the primrose path.

 

[betwixt]

I use the Arduino IDE for ESP8266 and ESP32 development. From your videos I can't see any advantage in using Eclipse as they both use the same underlying compiler and esptool.py for programming (and both lack the same detailed debugging). The Arduino IDE is available natively for Linux and Windows and is code compatible between them. I use Linux exclusively and find the Arduino tool as good as any.

Brian.

 

[andre_luis]

I've also used Arduino IDE for ESP8266 and works pretty nice, and not due to like this platform, but due to the extreme complexity in programming in C either using the official or unnoficial SDK. By the way, the libraries made by the development team in Github for the core in Arduino are always updated (thanks to Igrr et al.) and if you take the necessary precautions, you do the job very quickly.

 

[Build-A-Burger]

Thanks. I didn't have any trouble installing the Eclipse env, but yeah, the Arduino looks a lot easier and has a lot of support.