It’s not as newbie-friendly as ESP-Arduino, for sure, but it’s a ton more powerful, and we’re totally happy to leave the ESP8266 SDK behind us. The ESP32-C3 shares the coding framework with ...

For the x86 CPU emulator, he ported Fake86 which is written in C, and created an Arduino IDE environment ... Emulating other hardware on the ESP8266 seems to be a popular thing to do.