Good idea in theory, in practice it's a shit show. The current level of language support is "As long as you know how to write what you want in HDL, then you can

Good idea in theory, in practice it's a shit show. The current level of language support is "As long as you know how to write what you want in HDL, then you can write some C that uses custom pragmas and design patterns and attributes that will badly reproduce what you could have written in HDL in half the time".