> People often don't realize how important it was to OSS that it was preceded by decades of easy access to programming tools and resources meant for absolute beginners.
> OSS needs FPGAs, and FPGAs need what programming had back in the 1980s: an on-ramp.
Man this looks really cool. Am excite. https://www.blinklight.io/blog/2017-03-31/
@argumatronic this is incredibly up my alley (i went to school for digital design and work as a sysadmin). existing (proprietary, at least) EDA tooling is garbage. existing HDLs are a difficult conceptual model to wrap your brain around. debugging things with a 200MHz clock is not for the faint of heart. it is currently both the easiest it's been and also impossible to start.
but we need to do better, lest general purpose computing be relegated to corporations.
