exactly, and there are some open-source hardware designs (on sites like OpenCores), but the problem is that with existing hardware description languages very few people are able to reuse and contribute to these. This is why we've created the Cx language, to make it easier to design hardware for developers, and not just hardware designers.

We've open sourced the compiler; and we've designed some open-source hardware in Cx, see for example our Ethernet MAC: https://github.com/synflow/ethernet-mac