My "OpenCL for VS Code" extension got a rather big update. I moved the code completion feature to the cross-platform language server and implemented it with libclang. Since the binary size has increased and the number of supported architectures has as well, I also added a downloader & installer to the VS Code extension.
As a bonus, I finally added the icon for kernel files which I wanted to add back in 2017, but it was not possible back then.
On the eve of IWOCL 2026, the Khronos® OpenCL Working Group has released OpenCL™ 3.1, bringing widely deployed, field-proven capabilities into the core specification to expand functionality, including SPIR-V ingestion, that developers will be able to rely on across conformant implementations. The new specification arrives into a growing OpenCL ecosystem, with implementations from multiple silicon vendors, particularly in mobile and embedded
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