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Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 21:05:33 +0200
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On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:35:41AM -0800, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Ivan Stankovic
> (pokemon AT fly DOT srk DOT fer DOT hr) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
> <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:00:43AM -0600, John Doty wrote:
> >> A clean ground-up redesign of gschem, using the same file format, but with a modern UI, would be welcome.
> >
> > If anyone is interested in doing this in Rust, I'd be happy to help.
> > ;-)
> 
> I've thought about nim for this purpose for pcb .

I don't follow nim closely, how active is the community there?
Rust people have been really amazing and the rate of development
of both the compiler and the surrounding ecosystem has been impressive.

> sql-backed objects
> gets you rtree, undo and file format for free, and most of the nasty
> bits of current pcb are gone.

I prefer human-readable and human-writable formats, though I admit
sql solutions do have some advantages.

> The pcb rendering engine is really
> strong IMO (blazing fast and responsive compared to many commercial
> products) and you could keep that
> 
> nim can also compile to javascript as well so you could perhaps make a
> free version of upverter along the way

Heh.  Wishful thinking, eh?  :-)

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