[stephenmm]

Actually there is already a Scala version that is well defined. From the website https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ 'Chisel is an open-source hardware construction language developed at UC Berkeley that supports advanced hardware design using highly parameterized generators and layered domain-specific hardware languages.'

Not sure why they wouldn't use it instead.

[danellis]

It seems to be a particular phenomenon of the Go community that they want to reimplement everything in Go.

[pawadu]

You could argue the same thing about Scala too...