> The work you do on FPGAs is already a filter enough so that I don't think anyone is getting passed that and then giving up because the tools suck. About 10 y

> The work you do on FPGAs is already a filter enough so that I don't think anyone is getting passed that and then giving up because the tools suck. About 10 years ago I was doing some FPGA development in a startup. We were using Vivado. It seemed like we spent about 30% of our time working around Vivado bugs. I come from a hardware background originally and then got into software development (EDA tools) later on. After the startup gig ended I could've gone more in the direction of FPGA development. I decided not to because the tools suck and life is too short to deal with that day in and day out. And it's not simply that the FPGA vendor tools are some of the buggiest software known to humankind, it's that the FPGA vendors don't care to make them better.