The Arduino IDE support was announced on the ESP8266 community forum ... always do it the cool way with [CNLohr]’s programming tutorial we featured last week.

With that said, the same goes for a Raspberry Pi. For example, many enthusiasts pair the ESP8266 with an Arduino, but you can also use it without one. You can program it directly and run your own ...

While RAM often ends up scarce on an ESP8266 with around 40 kB or so ... but it’s still nothing compared to the overabundance of examples for ESP-Arduino or the incredible ease of use of ...