The Controversy Surrounding Shading Languages for WebGPU

In this episode, Chet and Romain speak with Ken Russell and Corentin Wallez from the WebGPU team. WebGPU is a new API that brings modern GPU rendering and compute functionality to web and other platforms (including Android!). We talk about the genesis and capabilities of WebGPU, WGSL (WebGPU’s new shading language), the state of WebGL (the predecessor API for web GPU rendering), and lots of other fun related graphics topics.

Ken, Romain, and Chet (not pictured: Corentin, who is on the monitor behind the photographer)

Links:

• Samples (and its github repo)  

• Google I/O Codelab

• Google I/O presentation Introducing WebGPU (and associated blog post)

• Series of articles teaching WebGPU and WGSL

• Series of articles of WebGPU Best Practices

• Draft specs for WebGPU and WGSL

• Dawn from Google/Chromium

• wgpu from Firefox

Romain: @romainguy, romainguy@threads, romainguy@androiddev.social

Tor: tor.norbye@threads and tornorbye@androiddev.social

Chet: @chethaase, chet.haase@threads, and chethaase@androiddev.social

Ken: @gfxprogrammerCorentin: @DaKangz and @DaKangz@mastodon.gamedev.place

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