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I made another comment about it. But the answer is Scala is the number one language for building hardware these days via Chisel.
by nish__ 8mo ago
I made another comment about it. But the answer is Scala is the number one language for building hardware these days via Chisel.
- betaby 8mo agohttps://www.chisel-lang.org/community https://www.chisel-lang.org/community second link - 404 third link - achieved project on github fourth link - educational project Perhaps it's a very know and useful project, yet indeed seems very niche to me.
- wk_end 8mo agoChisel is very neat but "the number one language for building hardware"? VHDL and SV are the only things in this space that actually matter. Chisel is still a blip for now.
- nish__ 8mo ago"...these days." Don't quote me out of context.
- wk_end 8mo agoI genuinely don’t understand what you think “these days” means or how what I said was incompatible with it.
- nish__ 8mo agoOk, let's say you were going to start a brand new project today. What tech would you use?
- wk_end 8mo agoHmm, I think we're talking about different kinds of "number one". The ancestor comment called Scala "niche" and criticized the characterization of it as "widely used". So given that context, I was coming at this from a perspective of popularity; Chisel is orders of magnitude nicher than even Scala itself and orders of magnitude less widely used. Most of industry is still choosing VHDL or Verilog for most greenfield hardware projects. I think you mean in terms of "best way to do it". Chisel can at least lay claim to that crown, sure, though I think you could say the same about Scala too. (I might say Clash for hardware and Haskell for software, not that that does me any good.)