[imtringued]

> the open source FPGA tooling pretty much completely ignored them, even though they're critical to commercial development.

"ignored" as in the vendors aren't cooperating with the developers of the open source tools? What the opensource tools are doing is hard enough as is. When you consider how fragmented FPGA chips are it's difficult to support a wide variety of them even if you wanted.

[jjoonathan]

I'm not blaming the open source devs at all. I admire them greatly. Unfortunately, it's one thing to admire someone greatly and quite another to believe they have a compelling offering.