Silicon Guys Secret Sauce

silicon guys will tell you that designing chips is really hard but the actual reason is b/c the software only runs on windows XP service pack 2 and every bit of secret sauce is in a 1300 line Perl script with comments in Finnish yeah NO FUCKING SHIT it’s hard

A screenshot of an X post jokes that chip design is difficult not because of the hardware itself, but because the supporting software runs only on Windows XP Service Pack 2 and relies on a huge Perl script with Finnish comments. The punchline is the absurdly outdated, fragile, and inaccessible development environment. EN: A screenshot of an X post jokes that chip design is difficult not because of the hardware itself, but because the supporting software runs only on Windows XP Service Pack 2 and relies on a huge Perl script with Finnish comments. The punchline is the absurdly outdated, fragile, and inaccessible development environment.

• @gentoomemes / 20848 2026-05-09