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by webgoat 1987 days ago
Not to snipe this post or anything, but you can get a Xilinx zynq 7000/7010 on Aliexpress for ~$20 right now (likely old bitcoin mining boards being tossed).
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Clearly you haven't had the pleasure of completing any production grade projects using 'Xilinx Vivado', or for an even richer experience they're repackaged Eclipse 'Xilinx SDK'.

I really hope yosys matures and is adopted in large numbers in industry, to become a de-facto gcc equivalent for FPGA compilation. Decoupling FPGA designs from the half-baked tools that vendors push out would be real progress.

$50 shipping...
Maybe depends on where you are, but I got this board with shipping to Europe for ~14USD a few weeks ago