> I know I cannot be alone in this. You aren't alone. Most people who work with FPGAs hate the toolchains. The entire FPGA industry and to a larger extent the

> I know I cannot be alone in this. You aren't alone. Most people who work with FPGAs hate the toolchains. The entire FPGA industry and to a larger extent the entire semi industry in plagued by this problem. This is a deep cultural issue. Look for example at NVidia and their dumb secrecy policy around drivers (just the first example on top of my head, examples abound). Secrecy and making your customers pay for tools is dyed in the DNA of these people and it is going to take a very long time for them to understand the economic advantage of openness. It took MSFT almost 30 years to finally understand the lesson that giving away dev tools for free (e.g. Visual Studio) was a competitive boost.