Disagree. I worked in this space for 15 years and watched CUDA win a market for NVidia that was ripe for the picking by Xilinx or Altera. The culture around har

Disagree. I worked in this space for 15 years and watched CUDA win a market for NVidia that was ripe for the picking by Xilinx or Altera. The culture around hardware design prototyping dominates the FPGA field and all attempts at making it approachable by software development are stunted by the proprietary ecosystem. I also think that high level synthesis is largely misguided since sequential imperative style isn't the correct way to think about FPGAs and also doesn't really address the lack of a good low-level language with an abstraction mechanism, and fundamental need for an operating system for running processes on a reconfigurable computing system.