Tempted to switch to https://github.com/shader-slang/slang for compute shader language. It has some very nice features but I'm a bit worried that I might hit some limits with no workaround (for instance, it doesn't look like they support pointers into groupshared memory)
Anyone has experience with it? Thoughts?
@xoofx I don't have experience, but positive signs are that it is in active development (https://github.com/shader-slang/slang/releases), and is now the "official future language" of Khronos et al (compared to GLSL which is effectively frozen)
[upd: it is not “official language”, just one of Khronos projects]
Sweet Jesus no it is not.
Slang is NOT the official future language of Khronos.
I told them again and again people would assume that.
None of this is your fault, dear friends and readers.
Hey @thekhronosgroup take note.
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Hi! I will (perhaps less hyperbolically) concur with David here that Slang isn't intended to be "the blessed language"-- from the POV of Vulkan, it's one of the several routes into SPIR-V. From the POV of Slang, Vulkan is one of several target APIs/platforms. I obviously think Slang is really cool (I am perhaps biased in that regard), but I also believe strongly in an ecosystem with multiple shading languages.
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