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They Used to Be a Big Shot, Now Eagle Is No More
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoMy college roommate worked on that over the summer, the first version! Design rule checking, some layout tools, not a lot at first. He was very proud.
- tylerag 3y agoI tried to use it 10 years ago, before AutoCAD bought it. I wasn't very successful, although admittedly I didn't know what I was doing. Today, KiCad is more than capable for anything a hobbyist would work on. Eagle is just an interesting footnote.
- JohnFen 3y agoEagle was dead the moment that Autodesk bought it and turned it into subscription software. Subscription software is just too risky to depend on for anything important.
- rm445 3y agoAutodesk are sunsetting it in favour of their subscription, cloud-based, always-online Fusion 360. Most Altium users are probably on a subscription too for that matter.
- JohnFen 3y agoThey had already made it subscription-only shortly after they bought it. That's when people generally stopped using it. They're sunsetting it now as a result of that loss of users (imo).
- hakfoo 3y agoIt's also toxic on the low end. As a hobbyist, I might want to spend a few weeks on designing PCBs, and then not again for months. I'll either have to over-buy an expensive annual contract or futz with activating and deactivating short-term subscriptions. Or use KiCAD or EasyEDA.