I started playing with Clash recently, which is basically a Haskell-to-FPGA compiler.
It's very cool and I'm slowly making progress, but man it feels like I'm learning to program all over again. I didn't take any electronics or computer engineering courses in college (focused a lot more on the discrete-math section of computer science), and the closest I've ever been to this is GPIO programming on an Arduino.
It's really rewarding though, and it's clear that it's a skill that might come in handy some day in the future. I can think of a few cases where I'd benefit from dedicated hardware for some stuff.
It's very cool and I'm slowly making progress, but man it feels like I'm learning to program all over again. I didn't take any electronics or computer engineering courses in college (focused a lot more on the discrete-math section of computer science), and the closest I've ever been to this is GPIO programming on an Arduino.
It's really rewarding though, and it's clear that it's a skill that might come in handy some day in the future. I can think of a few cases where I'd benefit from dedicated hardware for some stuff.