quigonjinn

Kinda off-topic. SpinalHDL is the second HDL, that I come across, being implemented in Scala. It seems that every popular programming language has at least one HDL implemented in it these days. Any obvious reasons for this trend?

There's also GNU Shepherd.

There is a way to do this without the security/bloat/management issues. Take a look at the approach of GNU Guix. Both versions of a package can coexist in the system. Libraries are dynamically-linked and security updates can be applied fast (without building the world), using the "grafting" system.