Lucid

Lucid is an excellent example of how Verilog can be improved. Developed by what is now Alchitry Labs, Lucid is a higher level language that can be translated into Verilog by the Alchitry IDE. Lucid introduces things like types, structs, and other concepts that we will encounter. These are standard programming concepts that we think about all the time, but which are typically absent in standard Verilog code. At least as of now (Nov 2021), Lucid is tied to the Alchitry IDE, and while I enjoy using Alchitry products, I also need to use FPGAs from other vendors and suppliers.