The amazing $1 microcontroller (2017)

Re:The amazing $1 microcontroller (2017) by throwaway9d0291 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:52AM (#24429923)

I think Espressif takes software fairly seriously, I really like ESP-IDF. As for Rust support, they're working on adding Xtensa support to LLVM [0] and someone has used it to build Rust [1].

It's not official support for Rust but it's official support for LLVM upon which Rust is based, which works too.

[0]: https://github.com/espressif/llvm-project

[1]: https://github.com/MabezDev/rust-xtensa

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Re:The amazing $1 microcontroller (2017) by dls2016 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @09:42AM (#24432263)

I'm new to the microcontroller world and am using ESP-IDF on the recommendation of a friend. Espressif's example code is pretty good! I was leaning towards STM32, but the ESP32 seems to do everything we need for now... pretty nice device for $5 or whatever.

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Re:The amazing $1 microcontroller (2017) by tlavoie on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:08PM (#24487766)

I'm also new, and picked ESP32 devices on recommendation of a colleague. I've had great fun, learning a ton to get going.

Available libraries have certainly made the process much easier.

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