It's similar to VHDL in that Synposys came out with Design Compiler in the 80s, and people switched from drawing schematics to writing code to design electronic

It's similar to VHDL in that Synposys came out with Design Compiler in the 80s, and people switched from drawing schematics to writing code to design electronics. From a language perspective it's quite different. VHDL has super-limited semantics to make it easier to synthesize. JITX is embedded in a general purpose programming language, which makes it more productive to write, and capable of describing all the weird little details that need to be handled for board design.