There's a difference between a development environment and the code that runs in a random device... The problem is not just closed source software (which I don

There's a difference between a development environment and the code that runs in a random device... The problem is not just closed source software (which I don't like and try not to use) but a lack of documentation of the architecture and bitstream formats. I program for a living, but wouldn't for the life of me work with a closed source compiler for an unknown architecture with no/incomplete documentation. Many people may be ok with this though (see for example, some shader compilers for embedded GPUs). There's a reason processor manufactures release all info about instructions sets and that in turn allows a lot of projects like gcc, llvm, v8, luajit, etc. to support them. I would think that opening up the details of this technology would spur a lot of innovation regarding FPGAs and HDLs, both in academia and in the industry.