>The Xilinix development environment is Vivado which supports writing and compiling your HDL along with creating testbenches and running simulations.

I tried getting into FPGA development, played around a bit with simple Verilog implementations then got a cheap FPGA board an pretty much failed at Vivado. That tool is completely unusable. It makes me think of 90s Visual studio where you have to jump through 5 forms and wizards to generate a broken project that wouldn't compile or run on your board.

Are there shell tools for FPGA programming you can just set up with a Makefile or something? Having to use a GUI for stuff like this seems silly to me.