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Yocto is significantly better than what proceeded it. I could fill a book on ways it has pushed the envelope for embedded development.

Is Yocto a steaming pile? Yes absolutely. But it remains a means to an end.

I'd struggle to accomplish with Nix what can be accomplished out of the box with Yocto. Now that being said I'd certainly try and use Nix over Yocto any day of the week.

I remain optimistic and that the two will converge and it will more or less not matter, though I'd much prefer Nix to consume embedded development than Yocto become Nix-pilled.



I got NixOS running on a NXP board we were using at my last employer and Nix is a blessing if your device is juicy enough to run systemd.

If I were doing it again I'd reach for raspberry instead since they're supported everywhere. If the workload can run on it that is.




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