[potamic]

What are SOC applications like? Generally for rich web applications with a lot of interactivity, you want to do client side rendering. Interactive apps can be deceptively complex to build and you really want to hire the right people for it. The spectrum of web developers you can find in the market is very wide which doesn't make it easy to find the right people. It also doesn't help that consultancies generally want to stick with the hottest, bleeding edge tools to stay relevant in the market and to motivate developers to come work for them.

[stdcall83]

Esentially something like this: https://www.xilinx.com/htmldocs/registers/am012/am012-versal...

[toast0]

At risk of being that guy on HN, this looks like the kind of thing that you would run and generate a static html and always use the same css.

If you're not happy with the perl tool, I'd run it to get all the HTML, then build a new tool in your favorite language that reads through the same source material and generates similar HTML (you can fix stuff you don't like as you go along, but don't change too much if the goal is to just get it done). I'd give an experienced developer about a week, or an average intern a month or three, assuming there's some hidden complexity, but not too much.

I'm not surprised software solutions companies aren't going to bid on a project that's 40 hours of work. And that you got someone to build a monstronsity instead.