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John Doty wrote:
> Has anybody but you mastered Xorn?

I believe more people know Python than scheme; there's significantly
more gEDA potential with xorn.

Python is also far more widespread than Guile.

I think the most significant argument for Python is that KiCad also
exposes its data model in Python; that's a clear path to more shared
effort and simpler portability/convertability of user data.

That nearly the whole world is now afraid to use Python2 is, well,
unfortunate, but not an insurmountable problem.


> The fact that the original scheme backends were the product of multiple
> authors is telling.

Are there many enough data points to actually tell anything at all?

I guess no in gEDA/lepton, for both Python and scheme.


//Peter