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Visual programming and learning with great building blocks recursively built using simpler blocks while being well documented.
Seems to be pretty much abandoned? It seems the nightly builds can not be downloaded any more atleast. Might just be a temp issue of course.
It's got commits from 2 months ago, I keep a few projects that go a few months at a time without activity. I wouldn't say it's abandoned, though maybe the devs aren't finding the time for it (or they're preparing some big update that isn't quite ready yet).
Looks interesting, but which FPGA chips and boards are actually supported?
Based purely on the name and a super quick scroll through the github page, it's probably the Lattice ice-series of chips, even more probably the ice40. There are a couple boards with ice40 chips out there that you can use fully OSS tooling for from synthesis to PnR to programming.
There is list of supported boards in menu. "Ice" in Icestudio was originaly for (Latt)ICE or ICE(40) i guess.

But since the F4PGA (formerly known as Symbiflow) is opensource project used to abstract away various FPGA makes (just like gcc and llvm support different CPU architectures). It is quite possible to support more than that. For example right now there is guy working on integrating Apicula project to add support for Gowin FPGA based boards which are extremely cheap:

https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio/issues/645