PCB houses will always accept gerber files as well.
The fact that Eagle libraries are commonly available and that PCB pool services accept brd files and provide design check rules is a big advantage, but I would expect that Diptrace libraries are also available. I'm now getting ready for another project, and wondering if I should cut my losses on what I paid for Eagle and move to something else. Further if I need to move beyond the hobby license its a bit pricy. I ended up paying someone else to route it for me. The downside was that it had more than a bit of learning curve, it sometimes crashed and the autorouter was horrible, next to useless, at least for my project. It also seems PCB houses or pool services accept Eagle brd files directly and make design check files available for Eagle.
What was good about it was that it seems every maker type place has Eagle libraries available for their parts, another guy who helped me with it had Eagle since its so popular and yet another guy was able to make libraries for me, again because its so popular. I did a pretty major design using the hobbyist version of Eagle, which I paid for. I have searched here and with Google but didn't find much side by side comparison. I promise, I'm not trying to start a holy war.
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