Clash (Haskell-to-HDL compiler)
Ranked 4 of 4 hardware description languages by recommenders
Free Haskell-to-HDL compiler; people recommend it because functional programming suits describing circuits.
Free Haskell-to-HDL compiler; people recommend it because functional programming suits describing circuits.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
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Why people recommend it
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Functional style suits circuit design
“we've already done the research! Circuits are just functional programming”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “FPGAs Need a New Future” “It uses functional paradigm, which is much more suitable for circuits”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “FPGAs Need a New Future”
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See all 4 hardware description languages, rankedWhat people said
All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“maybe clash would be interesting to you then?”
“Working on something that addresses this and allows you to create reusable sets of permissions for Claude Code”
“I might say Clash for hardware and Haskell for software”
“we've already done the research! Circuits are just functional programming”
“It uses functional paradigm, which is much more suitable for circuits”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.