We are very excited for next week's Shading Language Symposium in San Diego! This event will bring together graphics and computer shader programmers, researchers and technical artists with shading language implementers to explore the landscape of shading […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

MaterialX adds support for Slang Shader generation! Learn more: www.aswf.io/blog/materia... #materialx #slang #shaders #ASWF #machinelearning #openusd

Early Bird pricing for the Shading Language Symposium ends on January 18th. Register now to attend this inaugural, ground-breaking event! www.khronos.org/events/shadi... #shaders #shading #language #programming #developer #GLSL #HLSL #OSL #Slang #SPIR-V #WGSL

We are excited to announce the Shading Language Symposium's conference program is now available! Conference Program: www.khronos.org/events/shadi... #shading #language #glsl #hlsl #osl #slang #spirv #wgsl #gpu #programming

The recording from this session is now available: youtu.be/gUE-RIOwQKI?... #Slang #autodiff #shader #graphics #neural #rendering #gpu

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This Sunday is the deadline for submissions for the Shading Languages Symposium. Submit your title and short abstract today! Shading Languages Symposium submissions: www.khronos.org/events/shadi... #language #shading #programming

Recordings for all of the Slang-related sessions at this year's SIGGRAPH are now publicly available on YouTube! Check out the Slang blog for links to recordings and session materials here: shader-slang.org/blog/2025/10...

Join us in two weeks on October 21st for the next Getting Started with Slang meetup! This time we will tackle Automatic Differentiation. This session will distill the core concepts of autodiff. Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/1... #slang #autodiff #graphics #rendering #GPU

The Call for Submissions for the first Shading Languages Symposium closes October 12th. This is a great opportunity to present to shading language implementers, developers, researchers and technical artists. Learn more: www.khronos.org/events/shadi... #shading #language

Join us this morning for the next Getting Started with Slang webinar. Today, we will be focusing on Modularization. Register and join us!

Join us tomorrow for Getting Started with Slang: Modularization! We’ll explore: Modules & Visibility Control, Compilation Pipeline Magic, and Specialization Without Preprocessor Pain. Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0... #shader #slang #workflow

Slang event at #SIGGRAPH2025 @shader-slang.bsky.social 💖

It's almost time for the @khronos.org Fast Forward! I'll be giving a tiny preview of what's on deck for the Wednesday @shader-slang.bsky.social BoF. East Building, room 15, starting at 10am. s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

Khronos has announced the inaugural Shading Languages Symposium will take place on February 12-13, 2026, in San Diego to explore the current state and future development of #shading languages and real-time #rendering technologies. Learn more: khr.io/1le #glsl #hlsl #osl #slang #spirv #wgsl

Register for this webinar to learn about modules & visibility control, compilation pipeline magic using modules, specializing shaders, and understanding the difference between Slang’s type-safe generics and C++ templates: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0... #slang #shaders

Join Us at SIGGRAPH 2025! Explore the future of graphics development in this hands-on lab introducing #Slang, an open-source, open governance shading language. Find location and more Khronos-related sessions on our SIGGRAPH webpage: www.khronos.org/events/siggr... #shadinglanguage #shader

This new Slang blog focuses on how you can make use of wave intrinsics-- which you may already be familiar with from traditional compute approaches-- to get more performance out of the familiar 2D Gaussian splatting example. shader-slang.org/blog/2025/07... #slang

Everything is back up and running in my vulkan renderer after implementing automatic shader mapping/binding using the @shader-slang.bsky.social API. It's now possible to set shader parameters by name instead of using the raw descriptor set/write API. #vulkan #gameengine #rendering #gamedev

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This session is TOMORROW! Please join us for a "getting started" session on the Slang reflection API! Registration info at this link.

New Slang v2025.12 release includes support for emitting sample indices during OpImageTexelPointer construction, removal of redundant [payload] attributes, a fix for a spirv-opt bug, new arguments for controlling floating point denormal modes, and more.. github.com/shader-slang...

Join us next week for the next installment of Getting Started with Slang! This webinar will be on the Reflections API. When: July 8th at 8:00am PDT Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0... #Slang #Reflections #API

I can also clarify the answers to some of the Qs I got in Q&A: - For issues with non-differentiable operations in gfx, like sampling, Slang provides the ability to define your own diff for specific functions (e.g. to "undo" something like sampling) [1/2]

Next in the Getting Started with Slang series, we have a webinar on the Reflections API. Join us on July 8th as we explain the underlying mental model for how #Slang reflects shader code. Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0... #shader #API #reflections

Hi Copenhagen! I'm excited to be giving the first of the Hot3D talks tomorrow at HPG. Hope to see some of my fellow graphics nerds there! highperformancegraphics.org/2025/program...

No fancy engine stuff to show this month, but I've implemented @shader-slang.bsky.social and currently working on automated shader layout + binding. I feel like I'm almost there! #vulkan #gameengine #gamedev

Finally finished adding @shader-slang.bsky.social shaders to all my (almost 100) @vulkan.org open source samples and wrote a bit about it here: www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/06... tl;dr: I very much enjoyed this :)

NVIDIA Adds Vulkan Support to Smooth Motion Frame Generation — A Boost for Many Games and Emulators www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...

The recording of this talk has been posted! We got some great questions during Q&A. Check it out if you weren't able to attend in person! youtu.be/oGAzYih8I3Q?...

Did you know that Slang has a Discord server? Join the discussion: khr.io/slangdiscord

Join us tomorrow, May 20th, for a hands-on session demonstrating how to draw your first Gaussian Splat using Slang! Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...

Register now for next week's virtual meetup on how to draw your a Gaussian Splat with Slang!

Building on a previous blog on how gradient descent is used to drive Gaussian splatting representations, Working Group Chair, Shannon Woods, explains the changes need to go from that simple example to an implementation that achieves real-time performance. shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04...

Getting Started with Slang: Draw Your First Splat Join us on May 20th for a virtual meetup on how to draw your first Gaussian Splat with Slang! Perfect for graphics programmers interested in getting started with neural techniques. Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...

I've finally gotten a chance to put together an in-depth introduction to neural graphics for beginners in Slang using a simplified version of our 2D Gaussian splatting example! shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04...

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Next week in San Francisco, come join us for 3D on the Web, a special event gathering the brightest minds in #glTF, #WebGL, #WebGPU and #Slang! See agenda and register: www.khronos.org/events/3d-on...

Vulkan SDK 1.4.304.0 released with inclusion of the release version of the Slang shader language and compiler (previous SDK releases contained the beta version of slang) Learn more: www.lunarg.com/lunarg-relea...

Looks like the video from the Slang BOF at #SIGGRAPHAsia2024 was posted while I was AFK on winter break! If you've ever wanted to see if I can pronounce "parameterized polymorphism" clearly, now is your chance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyp7...

Shannon Woods from NVIDIA gave a great presentation on Slang at SIGGRAPH Asia. The slides and video are available on the event page: www.khronos.org/events/siggr...

Godbolt now has Slang support! godbolt.org @compiler-explorer.com

Come catch our BOF at SIGGRAPH Asia today! Learn more about the open source Slang initiative from NVIDIA that is now a part of the Khronos Group family! Learn more: www.khronos.org/events/siggr... #slang #shading #language #compiler

A quick way to get started experimenting with @shader-slang.bsky.social is through the rapid graphics development platform Gigi which lets you do GPU programming without c++. Just a node graph and shaders, and view the results in the viewer in real time with hot reloading. github.com/electronicar...

Slang is now officially under open governance at Khronos, and what better way to celebrate than running Slang shaders directly in your browser with WebGPU? try.shader-slang.org You can also compile your shaders to a variety of targets including Metal and HLSL. I'm giddy to finally share this!

Khronos has announced the launch of the new Slang™ Initiative. This will oversee and advance the open-source Slang shading language and compiler, building on 15 years of research, development, and deployment Learn more: khr.io/17f #Slang #shading #developers #khronos @nvidiastudio.bsky.social

Highlighting this post from @shannonin3d.bsky.social, we're very interested in the possibilities for Slang in MaterialX, where it could be used to harmonize node implementations across GLSL, HLSL, MSL, WGSL, and other hardware shading languages. shader-slang.com/blog/2024/11...