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S-expression schematics. Nice. There are entire markup disciplines that probably should have just been s-expressions and saved a few billion people hours.
by topspin 5y ago
S-expression schematics. Nice. There are entire markup disciplines that probably should have just been s-expressions and saved a few billion people hours.
- jhallenworld 5y agoThis is not a new idea: EDIF has been around for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIF At least for netlists, it is a popular format.
- hyperman1 5y agoI have a bit of mixed feelings here:. If it was JSON or XML, you could use existing tooling to work with the format. Say, using jq to extract metadata from a full folder of kicad files or generate files or components from a shell script. Sexp's are a step forward, but they are still only half of a standard. Charsets and escaping rules need to be defined, etc..