ESP-IDF

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with ESP-IDF, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Default fast scan silently connects to first matching AP, causing hard-to-diagnose wrong-AP behaviour2025-03-16
Toolchain setup is hard; upgrading took about three hours to fix2023-02-24
Initially couldn't figure out how to enable ethernet on the wESP322021-04-10
Documentation is poor, so non-trivial tasks are very hard to do2020-09-18