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Re:SimulIDE 0.4.13 by childintime on Sunday September 27, 2020 @04:08PM (#24609772)
This program came up in Portuguese on my English Windows desktop. Fortunately I speak Portuguese.

I tried it for a bit, it has potential, but isn't there yet. Like the clunky competition, the interface needs to be improved. It's a pity it isn't written in something like Flutter (uses QT).

In my view the benchmark for usability and responsiveness is (surprisingly) a web app: http://lushprojects.com/circuitjs/circuitjs.html. It falls flat for accurate simulations, but is an excellent tool to quickly evaluate schematic ideas.

Edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17599728

Re:SimulIDE 0.4.13 by app4soft on Sunday September 27, 2020 @04:32PM (#24609933)
> It falls flat for accurate simulations

If you read SimulIDE description, it already clarified on home page: "This is not an accurate simulator for circuit analysis, it aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, this means simple and not very accurate electronic models and limited features."

> but is an excellent tool to quickly evaluate schematic ideas.

Yes, it is. And that is why SimulIDE is what I'm looking for years ;)

Re:SimulIDE 0.4.13 by Nicksil on Sunday September 27, 2020 @04:23PM (#24609875)
>It's a pity it isn't written in something like Flutter (uses QT).

Why is it a pity this software was written in C++, using Qt, rather than in Flutter?

Re:SimulIDE 0.4.13 by slezyr on Monday September 28, 2020 @02:25AM (#24613551)
> It's a pity it isn't written in something like Flutter (uses QT).

Seriously???

> Flutter support for Windows desktop is now in alpha (along with macOS and Linux support)! - https://flutter.dev/

It just started to have some kind of desktop support.