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I did not expect this to be written in TypeScript. The intersection of people who really understand Factorio, Verilog, and TypeScript has to be less than 250,000 people on entire planet -- in the entire universe.
I did not expect this to be written in TypeScript. The intersection of people who really understand Factorio, Verilog, and TypeScript has to be less than 250,000 people on entire planet -- in the entire universe.
I did not expect this to be written in TypeScript. The intersection of people who really understand Factorio, Verilog, and TypeScript has to be less than 250,000 people on entire planet -- in the entire universe.
I think “250,000” is still orders of magnitude too high - I would bet you that the number of people who simply know verilog is lower than 250,000.
I did not expect this to be written in TypeScript. The intersection of people who really understand Factorio, Verilog, and TypeScript has to be less than 250,000 people on entire planet -- in the entire universe.
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I think “250,000” is still orders of magnitude too high - I would bet you that the number of people who simply know verilog is lower than 250,000.
I would bet it's less than 10,000 in the entire world.
Verilog originated in 1984 and educational institutions have been teaching it roughly as long, multiply by how many students graduate each year in an EE-related field and I'm pretty sure the number is far more than that in India alone.
Of course, the number of people who know Verilog (and Factorio) enough to implement something like this is going to be a fraction of that.
I would love to see some screenshots added to the README. I get that it compiles a Verilog design into a Factorio Blueprint, but what does the resulting factory look like? Is it just a bunch of wires and combinators?
> but what does the resulting factory look like? Is it just a bunch of wires and combinators? It seems like... yes? https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/35386456/115978429...
Always thought programmatically generating Factorio blueprints was a really cool idea and Verilog seems like a great language to model blueprints, but this repo definitely needs more work before being shared with the world. One of my favorite tools that shows what's possible: https://autotorio.com/example/outpost
Always thought programmatically generating Factorio blueprints was a really cool idea and Verilog seems like a great language to model blueprints, but this repo definitely needs more work before being shared with the world. One of my favorite tools that shows what's possible: https://autotorio.com/example/outpost