ESP-IDF
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
0warn against
Nov 11, 2025first mention
Oct 30, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Mostly works fine.”
embedded hobbyist/developeron “Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in dev…”
“The Esp FreeRTOS projects are a great little ecosystem, and will offer quite a bit more insight than Arduino”
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“ESP-IDF supports it well”
“Well you can use PlatformIO/VSCode and the ESP-IDF.”
“the ESP-IDF, which is a pretty good C-style interface”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
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“no ESP-IDF (though I use it for studying)”
“`ESP32/` holds an ESP-IDF 4.4 project.”
“Mostly works fine.”
“lighter than ESP-IDF”
“Technologies: Python, SQL, SQLite, Parquet, pandas, GitHub Actions, ESP-IDF/C,”
“custom ESP-IDF firmware”
“The Esp FreeRTOS projects are a great little ecosystem, and will offer quite a bit more insight than Arduino”
“It was surprising to see Arduino vs ESP-IDF even mentioned as a real decision to be made for a market product.”
> I'm more hopeful for single-pair ethernet to gain momentum though! I keep looking for a reasonably priced 10baseT to 10Base-T1L bridge... everything commercial seems too expensive (for me) and the two hobby designs [1] [2] I've seen are not orderable :( But I'm seeing more commercial options lately, so that's hopeful. [1] http://robruark.com/projects/10BASE-T1L/10BASE-T1L.html [2] https://matthewtran.dev/2024/08/10
“ESP-IDF supports it well”
“ESP-IDF is built on C and I can write C code just fine.”
“It wrote the entire ESP-IDF project”
“It gives you a 256bit block to work with”
“Or even ESP32, https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/stable/esp32/api-guides/cplusplus.html”
“Well you can use PlatformIO/VSCode and the ESP-IDF.”
“the ESP-IDF, which is a pretty good C-style interface”
“Been working on this very idea casually for couple years with ESP-IDF”
“I set ESPHome to use IDF under the hood”