[ErikCorry]

Sure.

The easiest way is probably to install Jaguar https://github.com/toitlang/jaguar

I would very much recommend the Visual Studio Code extension when you are starting out with the language. Will give you a lot of help and hints around the syntax. But you can use any editor.

Run a program on the desktop with `jag run -d host myprogram.toit`

Install the `host` package for non-embedded things like files, pipes and subprocesses:

# Make this directory into a Toit project.

touch package.yaml

# Install the host package

jag pkg install host

Other packages like http or mqtt can be found at https://pkg.toit.io/

[scotty79]

Thank you very much for the instruction. It went smoothly. I just had to additionally run

jag setup

which I was clearly told by jag run ...

Very nice experience so far.

One issue I have is that when I use UTF-8 characters in strings they don't show up correctly when the program outputs them to console which also uses UTF-8.

Not sure if I should configure jag somehow to make it work?

With exactly the same setup (editor/console) I have no encoding issues with javascript or python.

What's weirder, console in MINGW64 git bash window (directly, but not through Visual Studio Code) works just fine, even if I launch cmd or powershell in this gitbash window it still works fine.

Switching windows to UTF-8 systemwide through intl.cpl seems to help.

Still weird that other environments don't require this.

[kasperl]

Fix for the UTF-8 issue on Windows is in the works: https://github.com/toitlang/toit/pull/1318.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention :)

[scotty79]

May I have a suggestion?

I noticed that people encontering the language for the first time are surpised that they don't see examples of doing ESP32 specific things up front.

I know all of that is covered in the docs but maybe you could additionally a create single page meant to illustrate ESP32 specific functionalities provided by the standard library (similar to that: http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/esp32/quickref.html ) and make it easily accessible from the front page?

Plus maybe how to read anything from terminal that print outputs to.

[itizir]

oh neat! (sorry, replying on this thread because only seeing this now and it’s the only recent enough to allow replies…)

i’ve just completed a solver for a similarly constrained system myself (STM32, 100-ish KB of memory): https://github.com/itizir/advent-of-code-2022

managed not to give up on any days, heheh! it’s day 24 where after my initial attempt i thought it would be absolutely impossible. but then next day an alternative approach popped in mind, phew!