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On 2023-10-10 12:03, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
[..]
> Some years ago now I started a re-development of geda from the ground 
> up, and I
> was very well advanced in that project before I canned it.  The final 
> ’nail in the
> coffin’ for geda, and the reason that I canned my own effort, was 
> KiCAD’s switch
>  to a plain text S-expression file format.  KiCAD now ticks every box 
> for me that
> geda once did, in addition to being actively developed, supported and 
> working
> out-of-the-box on multiple platforms.  I can use each of the KiCAD 
> tools in a
> non-PCB, workflow agnostic manner if I need to, just as I did with 
> geda.

A KiCAD schematic looks awfully clunky/cluttered (to me).

-marcel