A few times over the past decade I wanted to start with a side project where I design and develop a CPU.

I bought a relatively cheap artic 7 board with 33kLUT and whatnot which I know people have used to implement risc-v implementations on.

But then I always lost my patience on the tooling.

For a side projects these days I need something comfortable. Something that that I can easily switch my context to without having to juggle VMs and installing unfriendly tools and use horrible IDEs