Programming is setting the knobs on the machine, working with an existing structure to get a job done.

Configuring an FPGA is laying out the machine. You are designing the hardware gates and building the structure.

You could argue it’s pedantic, sure. But I think that’s 90% of the reason people struggle with FPGA is they look at it like programming and not hardware design. I was explained this difference by people in the FPGA reverse engineering industry.

So, no to the topic, I still see zero reason to use a .NET programming language to shoehorn how you want mostly non-procedural hardware logic to function. Other than to say you did it and write an article about it.