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On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 08:24 -0700, Ouabache Designworks (z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > Rather than concentrating on what we don't like, I wonder if anyone > can > point to a FOSS Eda tool out there that you do like. What did they do > right > and what languages did they use? Unfortunately I can point only to my own Peted schematics editor. And unfortunately I like it so much that I am not able to stop working on it currently, or at least to completely pause development til some dark winter evenings will come again :-). I think the tool looks really not bad, and 6k lines is not too much code. But of course I am still asking myself if other solutions would give easier and more compact code. Qt-GraphicsView would be one direction one could test. Or maybe other frameworks generally used for game development. Unfortunately I have never done action game development myself, and I have no close contact to people doing it. Recently I saw one more HTML5 gschem clone, but I still have no real idea about how useful and serious that is. https://github.com/matthiasbock/gEDA.js/wiki For languages we have luckily many really fine ones now. I already told you that I will mostly concentrate on Nim for the near future. It is not much more difficult that Python, covers the whole range from low level kernel and bare metal development up to what is generally done with Python/Ruby/Java. And it is fast as C. But of course many other languages like Rust, Go, Crystal would be fine for EDA development too -- for me Rust seems to be more difficult. For GUI toolkits I only really know Qt as an alternative to GTK. Unfortunately Qt is closely coupled to C++, there are not many high quality bindings to other languages available.
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