Modern FPGA designs actually work very similarly. You have a high level graphical representation of all the different modules and IP cores you use, and connect

Modern FPGA designs actually work very similarly. You have a high level graphical representation of all the different modules and IP cores you use, and connect their inputs and outputs together using the GUI, but then the actual "code" (VHDL/Verilog/etc.) inside those modules is still written in text form like normal programming languages.