As someone who just said that exact thing upthread, half of it is general curmudgeonry. VHDL is not a terrible language, though it does have terrible tools. The

As someone who just said that exact thing upthread, half of it is general curmudgeonry. VHDL is not a terrible language, though it does have terrible tools. The IDE side of things is a big opportunity to improve the language. Making refactoring easier by not needing to manually touch up three different files to fix one name is a huge help. (And the IDEs have probably improved in recent times; I've done mostly hardware recently.) The compilers/synthesizers... those are vendor crud and so dragons lie there. VHDL-2008 support would go a long way to improving life....