I've spoken to a lot of processor designers, usually from an EE background, and they prefer Verilog: "we tried more high-level languages in the 1980s ... it was

I've spoken to a lot of processor designers, usually from an EE background, and they prefer Verilog: "we tried more high-level languages in the 1980s ... it was a failure" is something I've heard more often that than I wish I had. I think there is an interesting C. P. Snow-like Two Cultures thing at play between SW and HW people. I think the latter don't quite get the abstraction power of modern programming languages, they don't understand that syntax, types, modularity matter. They think PLs are something like C and C++: a mess that we simply accept and get on with life. The former really underestimate the extreme scale and complexities involved in processor design and verification. Never the twain shall meet? laundry list of pain points Think bigger: what would you do if you have a team of 3 engineers, or 30 engineers to work on a better tooling ecosystem?