The Arduino IDE support was announced on the ESP8266 community forum. Setup is fairly simple with downloads for Linux, OS X, and Windows. This isn’t an ESP8266 shield, either: you can write code ...

Getting it installed is as easy as adding the URL to the Arduino IDE’s Boards Manager interface, though as the video below shows, running it on Linux does require an extra step or two.

First up, is the default Arduino programming language -- which is a limited version of the C/C++ languages. To use it, you'll need to download the regular IDE software that's available for a ...