alt Hacker NewsVery niche? That's suprising to hear. I'm not in the space, and I know it's not in the big 2/3 (is SystemVerilog distinct from Verilog), but it's been around for 13 years and even DARPA has it on their radar:
> Chisel is mentioned by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as a technology to improve the efficiency of electronic design, where smaller design teams do larger designs. Google has used Chisel to develop a Tensor Processing Unit for edge computing
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisel_(programming_language)#...
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I think it is niche in the sense that it is almost completely unused professionally. Most usage tends to be academic or hobbyist. I don’t mean to imply that it isn’t suitable for professional work, but more that it is not very easy to make work with the industrial EDA tools necessary for fabrication.
Very niche on the scale of LLM training data.
I wonder if they just mean niche in the context of languages generally—human or programming? I mean there are, relatively speaking, boatloads and boatloads of open source software projects out there. Hardware open source projects, well a few exist…