The biggest pain point of "programming" hardware is the vendor tools. Imagine if all modern languages from Swift to Rust, from Python to Fortran, will all compile to C. The same situation is with HDLs - most of them compile to Verilog (some to VHDL). The world needs an open standard to rule them all - low-level HDL IR, that like LLVM can give birth to the endless variations of the cool languages, while giving them all flexibility they need. The synthesizing part would have to be written only once too. I proposed joining efforts[1] on building such a language either from scratch or based on something existing.