<i>The most useful tools in fpga dev have little to do with the part of translating the Verilog&#x2F;Vhdl into something the fpga understands.</i><p>Those tools generally are more &quot;barely tolerable necessities&quot; than &quot;useful&quot;. Also, I think we&#x27;re overdue some more languages for hardware development; both Verilog and VHDL are about 30 years old.