Introduction to LibrePCB A new, powerful and intuitive EDA tool for everyone

U. Bruhin (the primary author of LibrePCB) answered this question on Reddit ( link ): ---Quote:--- Hi! LibrePCB has some very new concepts, especially for library management. You should take a look at my talk at FOSDEM: link to this video (Slides: link ) As these are extremely different to KiCad's concepts, it would be very difficult to contribute that to KiCad because they need to provide backward compatibility. And KiCad already has a lot of legacy code, so it would become even worse when changing very fundamental concepts. It's very questionable if KiCad developers even would accept such fundamental changes - actually I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't agree with some of LibrePCB's concepts. So…

There's also an "Intro to LibrePCB" talk recording from FOSDEM this year: link to this video It explains some of the core design concepts and the rationale for them. In case you don't have time to watch the video, here are the slides: link

Before people start asking: Comparison with KiCAD and Eagle: link Talk by Urban that explains why he started LibrePCB, and how the library concepts are different from other similar tools like KiCAD: link to this video (Slides: link ) If you want to try it: link Previous HN discussion: link

Here's a video from FOSDEM where Urban (the main author) explains why he started LibrePCB and how the library concepts are different from other similar tools like KiCAD: link to this video (Slides: link ) Also, previous HN threads: link link

I haven't used any of these before, but this LibrePCB talk explains why they wanted an alternative: link to this video Horizon docs have this explanation: link

…file format for a font editor. One of the biggest current pain points is dealing with merges in version control (usually git). I think there are ways of dealing with that in an sqlite-based file format, but I worry it would require some custom tooling, especially to make sure invariants aren't violated. Another interesting example is LibrePCB (see link to this video ) who devised their own text based format specifically to make version control more friendly.…