> Today the "Modern Technologist" has to rely on a new set of languages: Verilog, VHDL. and > all sorts of reconfigurable hardware are being deployed in the f

> Today the "Modern Technologist" has to rely on a new set of languages: Verilog, VHDL. and > all sorts of reconfigurable hardware are being deployed in the field. Intel is currently shipping Xeon CPUs with embedded FPGAs. IOT is going to become a multi-billion dollar market in the next five years, and it is largely propelled by little $10 FPGAs that will require an astounding amount of qualified technologists to program them. I can't say I disagree (I wrote arachne-pnr [0] last year to learn about exactly these technologies) but I don't know how many people are going to be developing next generation of high performance systems in VHDL and Verilog compared to modern programming languages. I think there is a huge opportunity for tool development in this space. [0] https://github.com/cseed/arachne-pnr https://github.com/cseed/arachne-pnr