> Compiling a library of available open source tools is part of the project. Compiling? What's that even mean? What about funding? I wrote arachne-pnr, the

> Compiling a library of available open source tools is part of the project. Compiling? What's that even mean? What about funding? I wrote arachne-pnr, the place and route tool for the icestorm stack. My situation changed, I didn't see a way to fund myself to work on it and I didn't have the time to work on it in my spare time. I assume that's one of the reasons Clifford is planning to use VPR going forward (that, and it is almost certainly more mature, has institutional support at Toronto, etc.) I would have loved to work on EDA tools. I've moved on to other things, but I wonder if these programs will fund the likes of Yosys/SymbiFlow/icestorm/arachne-pnr.