Comment by liu3hao

Hi HN, I am making progress working on Circuitscript, a language based on python to describe electronic schematics: https://circuitscript.net/. A basic IDE (called the Bench) to try Circuitscript is available online: https://bench.circuitscript.net/

In the last month, I have added support for more ERC rules (pin type compatibility checks), added initial support for net classes and also cleaned up the language a little (backslash line continuation, similar to python).

Recently, I just completed a 161-LED charlieplexed array design that uses nested for-loops to simplify the array design. It is currently in production and I plan to write a blog post soon to document this design.

As always, the motivation for creating Circuitscript is to describe schematics in terms of code rather than graphical UIs after using different CAD packages extensively (Allegro, Altium, KiCad) for work in the past. I wanted to spend more time thinking about the design itself rather than fiddling around with GUIs. With code, the design intentions become explicit and reviewable.

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone else frustrated with graphical schematic tools! If you have a KiCad design that you would like to convert to Circuitscript, please reach out to me as well and I will help you to do so as I am trying to challenge/test the limits of Circuitscript.