> OpenGL Shading Language is a high-level shading language with a syntax based on the C programming language.
"high-level" and "based on C" in the same sentence? Something wrong isn't right.
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Somebody said assembly is a low level language, not C. There are various degrees of high level 😁
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C requires manual memory management via pointers to memory, lower than that is only if you're programming literal assembly 😂 I guess the bar for "high-level" is pretty low.
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I think OpenGL gets rid of much of the lower level memory manipulation though. It's kind of like a program you run for each vertex/pixel in parallel, pretty much like a pure function, even if the body of the script is imperatively defined.
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That said, I would much prefer to write my shaders in something like Futhark, haha! 😊
I really like futhark but keeping the size of the vector space makes programming in it a bit of a puzzle solving exp.
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Wouldn't that be a similar issue in GLSL?
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