- Thu Aug 04, 2016 6:35 pm
#52155
Sure I want features! I want MQTT, I want checkboxes and radio buttons! I want the ability to configure SDA and SCK pins for I2C, I want, I want, I want!
But really, more than anything now, I want my ESP8266 BASIC to work!
I don’t know how everyone else is doing, but with the latest builds and my Chrome browser I can hardly get anything that used to work to work now! Yes the new debugger looks beautiful, and I’m very glad I can now coax a link to (sometimes) appear on my page.
But now, even with simple programs, when run, sometimes they work a little, and sometimes the same programs when run a second time work not at all. And some work a little only if the debugger is on, but don’t work at all with it off.
Today I tried to load the newest build but the flasher now does not not detect my COM port.
I know nobody wants to hear the ugly words “feature freeze,” but I would propose that it’s time to stop plunging forward with ever more new (and I agree, dazzling) features and stabilize the large and fantastic feature set that is already there now! This wonderful BASIC has become unusable.
I’ve never pressed the “donate” button in my life. But after build 3.0 alpha 17, following Forlotto’s suggestion, I sent a few beers Michael’s way. He certainly deserves it! If anyone reading this feels its time to stop adding new features and make what is there reliable, why not press the “donate” button and send Michael a beer? If Mike starts getting lots of “beers” now, it might show that others feel like this too!
But really, more than anything now, I want my ESP8266 BASIC to work!
I don’t know how everyone else is doing, but with the latest builds and my Chrome browser I can hardly get anything that used to work to work now! Yes the new debugger looks beautiful, and I’m very glad I can now coax a link to (sometimes) appear on my page.
But now, even with simple programs, when run, sometimes they work a little, and sometimes the same programs when run a second time work not at all. And some work a little only if the debugger is on, but don’t work at all with it off.
Today I tried to load the newest build but the flasher now does not not detect my COM port.
I know nobody wants to hear the ugly words “feature freeze,” but I would propose that it’s time to stop plunging forward with ever more new (and I agree, dazzling) features and stabilize the large and fantastic feature set that is already there now! This wonderful BASIC has become unusable.
I’ve never pressed the “donate” button in my life. But after build 3.0 alpha 17, following Forlotto’s suggestion, I sent a few beers Michael’s way. He certainly deserves it! If anyone reading this feels its time to stop adding new features and make what is there reliable, why not press the “donate” button and send Michael a beer? If Mike starts getting lots of “beers” now, it might show that others feel like this too!
