Show HN: KiCad in the Browser

Emergence Engineering announced on Hacker News that KiCad — a professional tool for circuit board design — now runs in the browser. Available in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari without installation. The team solved serious WebAssembly challenges: rewriting the graphics layer as WebGL, supporting multi-threaded code on the web, and shrinking the bundle size from one hundred eighty to one hundred thirty megabytes. Free to start. Thirty dollars monthly unlocks closed-source project support, with AI and collaboration features planned.

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