[danhor]

One of the reasons amaranth (and other neo-HDLs) is so great is the full-fleged seamless integration with the host language. Generating DSP filters using the numpy for all parameters, creating CRC structures, diffent logic for different word widths, ... .

This is all feasible with SV or an embedded Macro language as well, but you'll either have to live with a poorly documented meta language (as not a whole lot of people are using it) or heavy missmatches between the meta language and the "real" language. Cocotb very much suffers from this for simulation usage.

And, tbh, if it can be nicely implemented in the host language (which IMHO is the case with amaranth, less so with migen), I don't think there are many benefits by being standalone.

[bb88]

I've always respected PonyORM because of their level of hacking of the python language.

    select(p for p in Product if p.name.startswith('A') and p.cost <= 1000)

PonyORM inspects the AST of the generator, and then translates that to SQL.

I feel like maybe something similar could happen to make the syntax more native for Amaranth.