I long for the days when FPGA development environments were an order of magnitude more bloated than software development environments. I've tried, on multiple

I long for the days when FPGA development environments were an order of magnitude more bloated than software development environments. I've tried, on multiple occasions, to build an open-source Android application, and each time I've given up after a few hours of trying to get all the bloat working together well enough to even compile something already written.