Hacker News Reader

If you're looking to make a commercial application with the ESP32 or ESP8266, I'd say bit the bullet and learn C. The Espressif SDKs are pretty decent.

I'm making a commercial product with the ESP8266 with the FreeRTOS SDK, and it's been relatively painless so far.

View on HN

I've recently bit the bullet started porting my CPP Arduino code to C to run on ESP32's and take advantage of some of the more advanced features, watchdogs and freeRTOS tasks.

I would much prefer to write the code in Rust but I'm sure even if it were possible and I got it all working eventually some other chip will be the new hotness and using C ensures I need to do the least amount of work to get it working on that chip

Did you take a look on chibios?

Given that ESP32 is already a bit better than an Amstrad PCW 1512, it would be nice to have other options as well.

MS-DOS had lots of programming language options.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com