That the toolchains run on Linux at all at least prevents one from being forced to use Windows, which is a plus, but yes, the state of FPGA tools is pretty horr

That the toolchains run on Linux at all at least prevents one from being forced to use Windows, which is a plus, but yes, the state of FPGA tools is pretty horrible. It reminds me of the days of proprietary vendor compilers where every platform vendor had their own subtly incompatible and/or differently buggy C or C++ compiler. In this way the FPGA development model is a decade or two behind software workflows.