Atopile – build electronic circuit boards from code

I do think Atopile is onto something though: the idea of being able to make “modules” made up of discrete comments that are reusable across multiple projects is pretty awesome. It’s not a new concept by any means but flipping through their documentation gives me faith that they might have figured out a relatively clean way to do it.

The downside, for me, is that schematics are infinitely useful for debugging and there’s a lot of semantic information communicated in (good) schematic layout that I fear will be lost when using Atopile (like left-to-right signal flow).