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It's truly interestering. We considered it, and we didn't like it. It seems something born to be "vendor lock-in" plus the fact that it looks super volatile (a
by scoutt 4y ago
It's truly interestering. We considered it, and we didn't like it. It seems something born to be "vendor lock-in" plus the fact that it looks super volatile (a bad combination). We are sure that our current EDA tools will at least stick around for a while.
And it's browser based. Opening any of the examples on the main page with firefox lifted up my PC like a hovercraft by the way the fans started to spin, with several seconds delay for any interaction (on a PC that's capable of running Altium and Orcad).
PS: I love the animation on the main page and how the mechanical engineer has no idea on what's going on!
- uuyi 4y agoGood points there about longevity. If you're doing any EDA work you need to drag the EDA product through the lifecycle of the design. I have seen whole computers with OrCAD for MSDOS dragged along with a product just so the toolchain didn't get shafted.
- dylan604 4y agoIsn't that what Docker was made for? [0] Dev1: It works on my machine! Dev2: Great, we'll ship your machine! [0] https://lescinskas.lt/assets/img/posts/2019/docker-works-on-my-machine.jpg https://lescinskas.lt/assets/img/posts/2019/docker-works-on-...
- built_with_flux 4y agoThanks for the love everyone! Yeah, performance is on our radar now that the core product is mature enough to manufacture boards. Our goal is to get 200 component projects to work well on a regular 2017 generation machine and get to 1000 by end of year. About vendor lock-in: we def don't want to lock anyone in...so data portability is big focus and we have import/export support for kicad and other formats like STL or Collada already. Planning to add support for Netlists, Altium, Eagle, etc too as well as a REST API. You can also export your project as a json file today
- bmitc 4y agoAny plans to make a standalone desktop app?
- built_with_flux 4y agoDepends on your definition of "standalone" Ultimately the power of flux is connectedness the collaboration that enables but we do plan to ship a standalone app that's unbundled from your web browser in parallel to the web version. We also have plans to offer some amount of offline capabilities so solve for use cases such as being on a airplane.
- m_kos 4y agoWould you mind sharing how long the queue for your Beta is? I signed up a few weeks ago, but haven't heard back from Flux yet.