alt Hacker NewsHa yeah, I agree the website isn't great. I set it up a while ago just so we have something to fill up the void. Right now it's just me and a professor of previously mentioned course who are actively involved in the project, so we've been mostly focused on the technical part.
That said, functionally speaking the extension is 90% of the way there. Synthesis, PnR, simulation, visualization and more all work for ECP5 & iCE40 FPGAs, and to limited extent some others as well. We have a few more features that we're working on, but a very solid basis already exists.
For technical reasons we have a bit of a deadline on finishing the project, which is likely in around ~6-7 months. So by then we intend to have a 1.0 release and very solid documentation out.
> it's just me and a professor of previously mentioned course who are actively involved in the project
Unfortunately, past experiences I have are that a very small academic team = stay away, project will have too many rough edges.
I hope your experience goes better. Tip: A revenue stream gives you something to work with. Failing that, carefully document your whole architecture so contributors will be willing to help.
## Irrelevant Complaining
Just ran across this last year: good looking software, great concept, first half of features work great … enough to hook me, so when I finally found out the other half was bug ridden I stuck it out but ouch. Needless to say, no design document so even fixing stuff was a pain point.