Is It Time for a New Embedded Linux Build System?

I’ve been building products using embedded Linux for the past 20 years. The first time I tried OpenEmbedded (the precursor to Yocto), it felt like a gift to be able to run a single command and build a bootable ARM image from my x86 workstation. But things are changing. We have more and more components (both hardware and software) available. We have AI tools. We have powerful processors with loads…