I work with FPGAs commercially. Using non- supported tools isn't an option.
If you're building anything 'real', you're not going to try to save a few thousand dollars and risk the program, you just cost it in.
Yeah, I know, Synplify costs way more than that, it isn't exactly standard anymore (Xilinx' tools got good enough).
It's really not that expensive, considering the FPGA is usually critical system architecture.
I don't see Nvidia as the 'villain' in that story either - they designed the graphics chips, they designed Cuda. Nobody is forcing anyone to use either. They don't support the language you like? Use somebody else's chips. They can't support every language - I'm not upset they don't directly support Object Pascal.
If you're building anything 'real', you're not going to try to save a few thousand dollars and risk the program, you just cost it in.
Yeah, I know, Synplify costs way more than that, it isn't exactly standard anymore (Xilinx' tools got good enough).
It's really not that expensive, considering the FPGA is usually critical system architecture.
I don't see Nvidia as the 'villain' in that story either - they designed the graphics chips, they designed Cuda. Nobody is forcing anyone to use either. They don't support the language you like? Use somebody else's chips. They can't support every language - I'm not upset they don't directly support Object Pascal.