[musicale]

I kind of like their Minispec HDL - I don't think I've seen it before though I guess it derives from Bluespec. I have always liked Wirth's Lola as well.

Verilog and VHDL are serviceable, but I think there is an advantage to having a simple, friendly syntax without the verbosity and overhead of VHDL.

I also liked how Wirth's course involved running on FPGA hardware. It looks like you might be able to do that in the MIT course as well although I didn't see specific labs for it.