[chrsw]

I feel like I'm a similar boat as you. I came into the ASIC world from the EE side of things: digital design, VLSI layout and traditional HDLs. I never learned functional programming so the entire paradigm of FP is opaque to me. Verilog and VHDL have their problems but at least I can get somewhere with them. It's up to me to learn these new HDL technologies because it appears this is where the industry is headed. I think starting with programming language theory and going from there will help with getting my head around technologies like Chisel and Clash.