Aras PranckevičiusNov 21, 2024
Slang shading language and tooling is now a Khronos project (was an nvidia project for past umpteen years). This is exciting! GLSL seems to be frozen with no future, whereas Slang is not only actively developed, but also brings in a lot of language features that sound useful. Nice! https://shader-slang.com/blog/2024/11/20/theres-a-lot-going-on-with-slang/
There’s a lot going on with Slang!

Show threadBillrey
@aras Could Slang be appropriate for Blender to adopt do you think?
Nov 21, 2024 at 5:20pmWeb
Show threadAras PranckevičiusNov 21, 2024
@billrey I don’t know. Not very familiar with that side of blender. Maybe?
Show threadClément FoucaultNov 21, 2024

@aras @billrey

Maybe... can't tell for sure. Have to evaluate it.

Show threadAras PranckevičiusNov 22, 2024
@fclem @billrey It feels like "something" will eventually have to be done about Blender's GLSL codebase, since GLSL is dead/frozen (no new features, no language improvements). Alternatives would be like: either HLSL, or (now possibly) Slang.
Show threadDoug BinksNov 22, 2024
@aras @fclem @billrey "Slang provides a compatibility module that enables the use of most GLSL intrinsic functions and GLSL’s parameter binding syntax" - so there is potentially a smoothish on-ramp for trying out Slang.