Comments on: ESP-IDF: ESP32 GPIO – Control Digital Outputs

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:32:26 +0000

In reply to Emmanuel Sanusi.

Hi.
We intend to create more tutorials with ESP-IDF in the future.
Regards,
Sara

By: Emmanuel Sanusi

Emmanuel Sanusi — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:04:28 +0000

Weldone team. Please can we have more tutorials using EDP IDF through VS Code?

I see quite a lot of your helpful and great tutorials. However, there are usually with Arduino IDE.

I will appreciate more of this coming with ESP IDF now.

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:52:42 +0000

In reply to Tha.

Hi.
In that case, I recommend starting with Arduino IDE and not with ESP-IDF.
Regards,
Sara

By: Tha

Tha — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 03:12:58 +0000

Thank you for examples, I’m just start with esp32.

By: JB

JB — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:33:26 +0000

Unfortunately
Espressif has stopped providing direct official support for PlatformIO in their Arduino core for ESP32, particularly with the newer versions like 3.x.
I don’t think it’s worth the trouble to use it ESP-IDF

By: Joe Margevicius

Joe Margevicius — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 13:56:54 +0000

Thanks Sara and Rui for all that you provide !! .. I will say that I have been coding as a (hardware) engineer for at least 30 years and am not a beginner at the common languages, but as a previous engineering manager posted on his office door: The Simple Solution Wins. … (i.e. engineers tend to make things so complicated – because they can – that it takes longer to get to market, is difficult to troubleshoot, and even support). I know ESP-IDF gives more options to do things, and I was really stuck back a few years with the support for the S3 device in PlatformIO/Arduino. That said, I will be happy to see the things that you come up with for this more complex platform, things that just plain can’t be done in PlatformIO/Arduino. Thank you for the help you provide!

By: Sara Santos

Sara Santos — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 11:00:44 +0000

In reply to Joe Margevicius.

Hi.
Yes. This type of programming is definitely not for beginners. But, this is a very requested subject by many of our readers.
So, we started creating a series on this topic.
However, for most hobbyist, you’ll be fine with Arduino coding style.

Regards,
Sara

By: Joe Margevicius

Joe Margevicius — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:12:44 +0000

Wow, thanks Rui for this tutorial on ESP-IDF in VCS. I have to comment that, compared to PlatformIO in VCS, the code looks quite bulky and a bit obscure to just turn on/off an LED ! … something more complex (e.g. webserver) must be incomprehensible to all but software engineeers ! … I suppose that is the cost of getting access to the latest devices.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:45:57 +0000

I have been curious about IDF for some time. I understand that it gives you more granular control over the ESP32. It appears to be more verbose than Arduino ide thou. Have you used it enough to be comfortable with it? If so, which one do you prefer for common projects? Are you planing to expand this topic?

Thanks for sharing.