Hardware tooling is bad. Like really lifesuckingly bad. Download yourself some free Xilinx IDE and try to do some Verilog Hello World on a cheap demo board. Bli

Hardware tooling is bad. Like really lifesuckingly bad. Download yourself some free Xilinx IDE and try to do some Verilog Hello World on a cheap demo board. Blink a LED or something. Its so bad you will want to scream: Dog slow sythesis (~compilation), useless IDE support, ten steps to run something, badly composed. Errors will land in some arbitrarily named logfile somewhere between the code. More expensive tools are hardly any better. I started doing hardware but ran away, I feel it is a waste of developer time to even consider doing any custom hardware designs. People should be punished for even thinking about using FPGAs. Just don't do it. Sorry for the rant, but I feel warning yall is my duty ;)