Arguably VHDL and Verilog are closer to the bare metal than assembly. Of course, everyone I personally know who are coding VHDL or Verilog professionally are e

Arguably VHDL and Verilog are closer to the bare metal than assembly. Of course, everyone I personally know who are coding VHDL or Verilog professionally are either working on latency-critical financial systems or defense systems. Edit: ... and my guess is that VHDL and Verilog are likely to be under-represented in public data.