> Developing hardware is a solved problem. Has been for decades. So we should have just stuck with schematic capture, then? Why were HDLs and logic synthesis d

> Developing hardware is a solved problem. Has been for decades. So we should have just stuck with schematic capture, then? Why were HDLs and logic synthesis developed (by those pesky "clueless" software engineers)? To increase productivity. Current HLS can (especially in certain domains like DSP) increase productivity. Sure, I'll agree that some of the hardware oriented DSLs probably weren't all that necessary if you consider the existence of things like generate statements in VHDL and SystemVerilog. But that doesn't mean that experimentation in increasing abstraction (and thus productivity) shouldn't take place. If yours was the reigning opinion in the software world we'd still all be programming in assembler.