First Walkthroughs: Overview and Package Deploy

A build system is easier to evaluate when you can watch it in motion. The first two walkthroughs are up on the Videos page, and they cover the parts of [yoe] that are most different from what you’d expect coming from Yocto or Buildroot.

Video 1 — Overview#

A tour of the build system end-to-end: yoe init to scaffold a project, the TUI with its live progress bar, background builds, search, and inline status — all in one screen. Then yoe run to boot the resulting image in QEMU. The aim is to show the full idea-to-running-image loop without an SDK install, a cross-toolchain, or generated shell scripts to read through.

If you’ve only seen the earlier post, this is the version where the claims become concrete.

Video 2 — Deploying packages#

The iteration loop, zoomed in. Once an image is running, the interesting question is how fast you can change a package on the target and try the new version. This video walks through building a package, resolving its dependencies, and pushing the result to a live target in a single step — no full image rebuild, no manual scp dance.

This is the part of the experience that most rewards the design decisions in Hello, [yoe]: one binary, language-native package managers composed in, and content-addressed .apk outputs that the target can install directly.

What’s next#

More videos are planned as features land — Docker on the target, Go and Rust units, BSP authoring, and the AI-assisted workflows. The full playlist lives on the Videos page, and the YouTube playlist is the place to subscribe if you’d like a ping when new ones go up.

Feedback is welcome — what would you want to see demoed next? Open a discussion or send a note.