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I'm glad to hear you're not ignoring performance, but please keep in mind that you're putting a big stumbling block in the way for people who would want to use a similar service. github would've gone absolutely nowhere if they forced programmers to re-type everything into HTML forms, or even into extremely well-written web apps.

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Github would have also gone nowhere if they only supported code written in one text editor.

Most EDA software is written by companies who have no interest in letting you see how their proprietary formats work.

> Most EDA software is written by companies who have no interest in letting you see how their proprietary formats work.

Oh boy, I know it, and it's been a pain in my side. However, EAGLE (lots of hobbiests use it) is migrating to a fully-documented XML-based format [1], and there are two open-source projects for schematic capture, kicad and geda, which would give someone a head start on parsing their design files, at least.

[1] http://www.element14.com/community/message/15751

Hey rcfox, Zak from Upverter here. We are planning to release import/export and an open file format by the end of the month. We have altium, eagle, kicad and geda converters in the works too!

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