Engineer Predicts KiCad Success From Plaintext S-Expressions

An electrical engineer posted that KiCad will win because the whole design stays in plaintext. The message specifies S-expressions as the structure with no proprietary file format present. The author concludes that an LLM will eventually write directly to the file. This view comes from the account @i2cjak associated with amembedded. The post stands alone without further elaboration from the same source. Conversation around the post shows no immediate counterpoints or supporting data from other users. The emphasis falls on the open nature of the file format as the deciding factor for future development tools.