i see a very good future for efabless, skywater-pdk. it all depends on who looks. what is garbage for some is very valuable for others. if you don't understand the value, you have nothing to say.

I am not a client of Efabless or have done anything with the tool (yet). So I won't comment on complaints about the "quality". The way I see it, if this is more or less like Tim Ansell describes in his talks, this could have similar (or even bigger) impact like when Linus Torvalds started the Linux revolution from his student room somewhere in Finland in 1991. I haven't read any of the e-mails (no Slack at that moment) between Linus and other hackers at that time, so cannot tell if there was any complaint about quality of Linux at the start. But nevertheless, fast forward to the moment, that alpha version of Linux has brought the open source movement in the global scale, and still influences the world at large. We can also see open source hardware movement that becomes popular lately, as an extension of that humble beginning of Linux (or Gnu Project from FSF or hacker culture before it). I would wonder what a technology historian would comment on this exciting time, say, 30 years from now. Would it be as important as Linux to open source movement, as Skywater-PDK to open source hardware movement?