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 ...

This has now changed. The officially unofficial ESP8266 community forums now has a working GCC for the ESP8266. The ESP8266 most people are getting from China features a Tensilica Xtensa LX3 32 ...