there is a type of tool i felt should already exist, even if as a proprietary package, but which as far as i can tell is conspicuously absent from the ecosystem. so i decided to start building it myself. i think the existence of a tool like what i am making would drastically lower the barrier of entry into the world of FPGA/HDL development.
i've seen tools with superficially similar goals to mine, but which i think miss the mark in a very similar way to how "teach kids to code" sorts of things do, in that they are inherently limited, and at best poorly integrate with or map onto real-world workflows. so once you want to take off the training wheels and work on a big girl project, you have to abandon what you've learned from, and learn a completely new mental model of how things work, and there is nothing to help you cross the gap
with any luck i'll be able to convince my employer that it's worth me spending time working on it, and that it should be maintained by us as an open source project
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linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 06:35:22 JSTlinear cannon