Lucid, a New Hardware Description Language (opens in new tab)

The link doesn't really give very much information, but from the tutorial (https://embeddedmicro.com/tutorials/lucid) it looks like a skin of Verilog. What's the advantage of using this over a more modern HDL like Chisel?

This language looks like it attempted to solve a number of issues from the old verilog days, but wound up reinventing a very very small subset of system verilog instead of inventing something new.

  arrays in lucid = system verilog arrays
  "fsm" = basically system verilog enums and a little  helper logic
  "connectors" = system verilog interfaces

etc etc.

Its definitely better to go where the tool support is. With system verilog you get a lot of nice verification: constrained randomization, built in process synchronization, support for differentiated test bench vs dut, assertions, complex coverage metrics.