If you've done VHDL, you'll be familiar with Ada's syntax. When the DoD commissioned the design of VHDL, they required that its syntax be based on Ada.
I wonder how nice a PL/SQL & Ada combined environment/IDE could be.
Also random note, but wouldn't most engineers familiar with HDL's be electronic engineers rather than software developers?
Basically, the US is a really bad place to be an electrical engineer specializing in electronic hardware, but it's a great place to be a software engineer or developer.
Its because software engineers get paid much better in addition to more options. As a firmware engineer I straddled both sides. So many of my EE colleagues lamented they should have done more on the software side. A few of the brilliant ones moved to places like Google, Amazon which need them for specialist roles.
I remember a decade back I was visiting a customer in Taiwan to help debug our product and saw a legion of Chinese engineers helping out some project. I knew eventually Taiwan would lose some of their R&D to China.
Also, there are lots of professional software developers who studied Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering in college. Many schools historically had all their CS classes and faculty within their EE department.
I observe the same effect on other things like unit tests except the effect is the reverse of what people typically think. Lots of unit tests early on help you write correct code initially but as code matures it's just wasted automation time & it can end up ossifying some architectural decisions (ie. a change ripples out & causes a large amount of tests to need updating).
When I worked in EDA I was given a project to get rid of linting errors in our generated HDL code. We generated both VHDL and Verilog. Our generated VHDL had very few problems thanks to strong typing. But there were lots of problems to fix in the Verilog code caused by it's weak typing.