That's what I used to believe and it's probably true, but I think it will not really happen. You just don't need FPGAs for most things. Especially if you just l

That's what I used to believe and it's probably true, but I think it will not really happen. You just don't need FPGAs for most things. Especially if you just like to tinker around. I mean we have Microcontrollers running at 600MHz+. That's usually fast enough to get things sorted in software. I do have hell of a lot fun designing my own CPUs and other hardware on FPGAs, but I've been doing this for a couple of years now and whenever I talk to someone who hasn't done any development in that direction yet, I often have to remind myself that hardware development is just a completely different mindset. Yes, copy pasting a few logic gates into vhdl is easy, but I don't know how you would go on from that if you just want to have fun. Getting something done in hardware can be really frustrating sometimes. Maybe all the "new-age HDLs" might be a solution to this - i have to admit i haven't really tried them out yet.