espup VS esp-web-flash-server

https://github.com/esp-rs/espup/issues/19 https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/1355

Thanks for mentioning it. I already tried using it a few months ago and brushed it off as still being a WIP, but it still didn't work when I tried again just a few days ago. Asking in the Matrix chat when first trying it sadly only got me a "works for me" from the developers.

What Espressif is doing with their esp-idf and porting it to Rust is promising, but overall it still needs work. Using the toolchain to develop on the ESP32 was at least slightly painful half a year ago before they introduced espup[1], having to keep a patched LLVM around etc., and supposedly support for their Xtensa architecture is coming to LLVM soon[2] so this will improve in the future.

I'd also love to see Bluetooth support in esp-idf-svc[3], but they seem to be lacking people with the required knowledge to design and implement an abstraction for it[4].

[1]: https://github.com/esp-rs/espup

The environment setup can now be done with espup, its a Rust tool that replaces the bash scripts and also works in Windows.

Installing it locally should be relatively simple with espup, let me know if you finally decide to go for this option and have some questions!

We even have our own installer (written in Rust of course :D) - https://github.com/esp-rs/espup

The idea of those image tags is to use them as devcontainers with Gitpod, Github Codespaces, or VS Code. The recommended way is to use one of our templates, both templates include a prompt asking for devcontainer support, when devcontainers are enabled, projects include web-flash, wokwi-server, and other useful crates. Also, some bash scripts and buttons in the VsCode UI are added to facilitate building, flashing, and simulating with Wokwi. Once you generate a template project with devcontainer support, a Readme will be generated with further instructions on how to use it, but here is the template so you can have a look at them!