I disagree that you need that much hardware knowledge. I also think that statements like these can be discouraging to people that don't have a background in har

I disagree that you need that much hardware knowledge. I also think that statements like these can be discouraging to people that don't have a background in hardware. That's a shame because for me playing around with HDLs was one of the most mind opening experiences for a software developer. I wrote tetris in Verilog that outputs to VGA[0]. I definitely encourage anyone interested in HDLs and FPGAs to start learning. [0] https://github.com/jeremycw/tetris-verilog https://github.com/jeremycw/tetris-verilog