I remember reading Bunny Huang's book "hacking the xbox" and feeling so empowered to build projects with FGPAs. So I took two semesters of Verilog in University. However I have never been able to translate that knowledge into anything remotely useful.
TBH proprietary tooling this is just not the way to go. The FPGA space needs solution which works across FPGAs of different vendors.<p>Besides there are way better alternatives to VHDL and Verilog that I feel High level synthesis is kind of dead.