I'm an FPGA engineer. This is cool, but seems unlikely to be used much in practice, mostly because the tools are so crufty that the industry has silo'd itself i

I'm an FPGA engineer. This is cool, but seems unlikely to be used much in practice, mostly because the tools are so crufty that the industry has silo'd itself into separate hardware ecosystems. For example, most places will use all Altera or all Xilinx chips, and their designs will rely on features that are only provided by the Altera or Xilinx tools/chips, making switching tools expensive and time-consuming.