Re: Re: "transistor layouts for FPGAs"
Xilinx (for one) sells a C compiler for FPGAs - you can absolutely write logic in C and compile into a design language using today's tools. Heck, you can even use Python these days (with nMigen).
I know of one UK startup that's made a toolchain that compiles Go down to Verilog for FPGAs in Azure.
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