On: Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB de...

[osamagirl69]

I am a KiCad user, should I switch to Horizon and why? From the docs it seems like your main selling point is a better library, why not just make a better library for KiCad?

[karotte → osamagirl69]

As written in https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/why-another-eda... changing the way how a PCB design tool handles libraries would certainly require a complete rewrite as the library structure permeates the entire codebase.

Starting from scratch also allowed me to trivially implement features that KiCad is missing, such as proper panelisation: https://blog.horizon-eda.org/progress/2020/04/05/progress-20...