Sigh. I don't need <i>yet another</i> plugin for my generic parts--that you're going to try to monetize on me eventually if you achieve lock in.<p>Let me be blunt. I don't need <i>extensions or features</i> to my PCB tools. Certainly not "Yet Another Database Frontend(tm) You Can Rent".<p>I my tools to fscking <i>WORK</i>.<p>I need a tool that runs, fast, on Windows, Linux, and even OS X.<p>I need bug fixes for the features that they actually have.<p>I need a tool that lets me script things in a modern programming language.<p>I need an autorouter that doesn't suck. This will never happen because our algorithms don't like to work with PCB limitations of small numbers of layers and obstacles that penetrate multiple layers.<p><i>ALL</i> the PCB software tools are buggy piles of garbage because the amount of money in that industry is now fixed. Charitably: everybody is trying to extract rent instead of innovate. Uncharitably: nobody actually in development actually knows how the board designers use their tools anymore.<p>If you want to go chase a field, go chase Cadence, Mentor and Synopsys up into the real EDA market where <i>algorithms</i> matter. Creating $10000-level tools that can do actual VLSI design to take advantage of the fact that transistors are stupidly cheap in volume would kick off the custom silicon revolution everybody has been promising.