If you were to launch a DDOS attack on programmers' ability to get things done, this is what it might look like.
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Absurdly, all these shading languages are in essence the same. It's not like one is C, one is Lisp, and another one is Prolog. They are just different enough to prevent you from doing real work instead of pointless drudgery.https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1394822253586436098 …
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Before, it was already crazy, because you could be running on the same CPU and GPU, but you were forced to use a different shading language per OS. Now you need *two* shading languages for one OS, because maybe you are running in the browser.
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also doesnt glsl *already* work in the browser via webgl?
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iirc the idea of webgpu is being able to do compute-shader-like things Still... it's kind of a mess. You also have to keep in mind that there is already two WebGLs based on different GLES versions :\
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In order to write once, run everywhere these days you need to create or use a graphics layer abstraction and high level shading language. Metal, WebGPU, DX12 all believe they are alone in the universe it seems.
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What we need is another layer on top to fix everything
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Shading Languages are a crime against humanity!
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You could just write to 1 and write transpiler make it for the other platforms. Actually, I just use the C preprocessor to convert between HLSL and GLSL.
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It's exactly that attitude that makes everything terrible. Tech bru.
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Why shader languages exist at all?
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