To me, the state of development of open source FPGA tools feels about like the GNU project in the late 1980s.
gcc 1.x and 2.x targeted several Unix platforms and produced working code some of the time. It would work with gas or the vendor's assembler and gld or the vendor's linker, depending on target. It almost always used the vendor's libc and other libraries.
GNU autotools didn't exist but every significant project had its own "configure && make && install" system that worked some of the time.
The vendors mostly ignored the project, though clueful engineers from vendors as well as customers were cheering it on.
I think it will not take Yosys/iCEstorm/SimbiFlow/whatever 20 years to take over the world this time around. At least I hope not.
gcc 1.x and 2.x targeted several Unix platforms and produced working code some of the time. It would work with gas or the vendor's assembler and gld or the vendor's linker, depending on target. It almost always used the vendor's libc and other libraries.
GNU autotools didn't exist but every significant project had its own "configure && make && install" system that worked some of the time.
The vendors mostly ignored the project, though clueful engineers from vendors as well as customers were cheering it on.
I think it will not take Yosys/iCEstorm/SimbiFlow/whatever 20 years to take over the world this time around. At least I hope not.