I don't think this a fundamental exclusive benefit of "code" (ie text). I am skeptical how textual merging, especially default automated, can be applied in this domain except in trivial ways. This is a usually easy sell for software because you can structure your system to localize effects (even if there it isn't perfect). The big guns have very sophisticated workflow and tooling for this.
> code makes it easier for them because more information is captured in the code
I sincerely don't understand. Perhaps it is informative to consider that SPICE has been around for 50 years. The idea of using textual description for circuit design is not new at all, and they are used when appropriate. One must ask why the basic workflow is the way it is when the alternatives have always been possible.
> Currently the schematic forces you to have both the documentation and the implementation baked into the same document
I don't think this a fundamental exclusive benefit of "code" (ie text). I am skeptical how textual merging, especially default automated, can be applied in this domain except in trivial ways. This is a usually easy sell for software because you can structure your system to localize effects (even if there it isn't perfect). The big guns have very sophisticated workflow and tooling for this.
https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/collabo...
https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/using-v...
> code makes it easier for them because more information is captured in the code
I sincerely don't understand. Perhaps it is informative to consider that SPICE has been around for 50 years. The idea of using textual description for circuit design is not new at all, and they are used when appropriate. One must ask why the basic workflow is the way it is when the alternatives have always been possible.
> Currently the schematic forces you to have both the documentation and the implementation baked into the same document
Not entirely onboard with this forcing assertion, but is this necessarily a bad thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming