prjtrellis VS Pylint

Yosys, the underlying compiler of ice studio, also targets the much bigger ECP5 FPGA, also by Lattice, which is called Project Trellis: https://github.com/YosysHQ/prjtrellis

Yosys functions more like a software open source tool. So command line compiling. It also has a REPL. It is very quick compared to the commercial solutions. Especially around compile times which can take seconds instead of minutes. YMMV, but I think the consensus is that it's a lot more convenient to use.

In general the hardware toolchains feel very ancient compared to software toolchains.

Not that it will lead to anything soon, you could put a feature request in at Project Trellis and offer to test things, or provide hardware if you have extra.

A little introduction about pylint. Pylint is a static code analyzer, it analyses your code without actually running it. Pylint looks for potential errors, gives suggestions on coding standards that your code is not adhering to, potential places where refactoring might help, and also warnings about smelly code.

Pylint, on the other hand, focuses on code analysis and style checking. It offers extensive customization options and supports various coding standards. Pylint is known for its comprehensive reports and ability to detect a wide range of code issues.

In my opinion, the best way to expose configuration options is to read and parse them from the project's pyproject.toml file. Here's how Pylint handles it.

I even contributed to Pylint by submitting a new rule a few years ago : implicit-str-concat.

Implemented code formatting with Black and linting with Pylint in my CI pipeline. Here is my updated GitHub Actions Workflow file: ci.yml

One last thing to do before running the hooks is to create a config file, just like we did with flake8. For this you are going to create a pylintrc file at the roor of your project and copy the contents of the pylintrc file from the pylint repo (here is the link to it).