Comment by nish__
I made another comment about it. But the answer is Scala is the number one language for building hardware these days via Chisel.
I made another comment about it. But the answer is Scala is the number one language for building hardware these days via Chisel.
Hmm, I think we're talking about different kinds of "number one".
The ancestor comment called Scala "niche" and criticized the characterization of it as "widely used". So given that context, I was coming at this from a perspective of popularity; Chisel is orders of magnitude nicher than even Scala itself and orders of magnitude less widely used. Most of industry is still choosing VHDL or Verilog for most greenfield hardware projects.
I think you mean in terms of "best way to do it". Chisel can at least lay claim to that crown, sure, though I think you could say the same about Scala too.
(I might say Clash for hardware and Haskell for software, not that that does me any good.)
https://www.chisel-lang.org/community
second link - 404
third link - achieved project on github
fourth link - educational project
Perhaps it's a very know and useful project, yet indeed seems very niche to me.