Comment by whartung

I took a stab at something like this. My intent was that you’d be sitting at a Common Lisp REPL, and start entering commands.

As you did this, a graphical window would show your components and traces. I considered similar to a legacy AutoCAD, way back before pointing devices were commonplace.

I had a whole simple dialect to easily identify traces, which you would continuously split with points, then nudge them around or anchor next to other points.

I honestly felt, especially for the small board project I was working on that writing this from scratch would have been faster than fighting KiCAD or any of the similar tools.

But I was stymied with finding a good way to get graphics out of CL on my Mac. I even considered doing it all in SVG with some kind of auto reloading file, and just rewriting it each time.

Obviously I did not put a lot of effort into it, had enough friction to move on to something else.