[lvoudour]

>The design tool market is horrible

I wouldn't say it's horrible, it's just not open source (mainly because it's mostly a high-end market). You can easily get by with the free versions of the implementation/simulation tools if you're a hobbyist

[Gracana]

It's not really a market, though. If you have decided to use Xilinx FPGAs, you're going to use Xilinx tooling. Period.

For someone coming from software programming, that seems very strange. But you get over it.