> Fast, reasonably priced prototyping (PCB assembly, mechanical 3D printing, etc.). RAM is expensive now. Reasonably priced seems to be counter to that fact.

> Fast, reasonably priced prototyping (PCB assembly, mechanical 3D printing, etc.). RAM is expensive now. Reasonably priced seems to be counter to that fact. The whole article feels like a promo-tour. > The catch is that nobody handed us the tools to keep the place running. Software such as homebrew exists. Why is the article ignoring this? Not only does it feel like promo, it now feels like propaganda. Homebrew is also just one example; LFS/BLFS also exists for embedded linux. Perhaps the quality is less than for desktop computer systems but it exists. > Edge devices have started behaving like cloud systems. They run increasingly complex stacks, are frequently updated, and are managed remotely over their entire life. Companies want to become dependent on others? Because that is what cloud is all about. Top-down control. A mafia for later blackmail rack-up-the-price strategies. > That puts the cross-compile burden squarely on embedded developers, and maintaining recipes for thousands of packages has been a steady drain on the Yocto community Seems untrue. If you have a compiler that works, you can compile. Thousands of packages? I am tracking 3888 right now. That covers really most software by far, including python pypi addons. If a single person can do that, a team has an even easier time. The whole article seems to narrate a story that is just made up. > Building everything from source in Yocto means long builds, heavy memory use, and powerful workstations. No it does not. I do so every day. You need a reasonably fast computer and RAM, which is now driven up by the existing hardware mafia that must be put in jail, but it is easily possible for solo persons too. Now imagine a team. The whole article is really really crap. Absolute garbage. The claims it makes are for the most part simply not correct. It narrates a story as if all linux developers are incompetent. I highly doubt that. It also never mentions any existing software here that would change the rhetoric such as homebrew, LFS/BLFS and so forth. It feels as if that article is just engineered to tell a "we thus need xyz". That's not good writing. I mean just look at this: "We can leverage these change agents and rethink the world of connected products." What does that even mean? Did AI write this? Because humans are usually smarter when it comes to opinion pieces. "connected products" - everything is now connected?