The most popular hardware description languages are Verilog and VHDL. They are widely used in conjunction with FPGAs, which are digital devices that are specifically designed to facilitate the creation of customized digital circuits.
Hardware description languages allow you to describe a circuit using words and symbols, and then development software can convert that textual description into configuration data that is loaded into the FPGA in order to implement the desired functionality.
VHDL was written as a description language, whereas Verilog was written as a hardware modeling language. As a result, VHDL is a strongly typed, verbose, deterministic language. Verilog, being the opposite in terms of its features, looks similar to C code, which is why it is often easier to learn.