Don't get me wrong – VHDL is a terrible language for design and verification (just like Verilog). Some of those new high-level languages are actually better than VHDL and Verilog, but not sufficiently better to overcome the momentum of the old languages.

> VHDL predates FPGAs

I was using "FPGA design" as a placeholder for digital logic design in general, given that by far the most VHDL and Verilog is written for FPGAs today.