Agreed. However, MyHDL (www.myhdl.org) allows for programming using Python, and works very well : I haven't written any VHDL (other than at top level) for year

Agreed. However, MyHDL (www.myhdl.org) allows for programming using Python, and works very well : I haven't written any VHDL (other than at top level) for years now. It would be interesting to see how far they can take it using Go.