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Opening HLSL Planning

October 20, 2022 Oct 20, 2022 10/20/22

Chris Bieneman

Since early 2017, the DirectX Shader Compiler (DXC) has been open source and available on GitHub. DXC is based on the LLVM 3.7 release of Clang, which enables compiler-driven IDE integrations, powerful language tooling, and has empowered HLSL to grow as a language to include highly requested features like C++ templates and operator ...

New DirectX Shader Compiler based on Clang/LLVM now available as Open Source

January 23, 2017 Jan 23, 2017 01/23/17

Chas Boyd

The DirectX HLSL (High Level Shading Language) compiler is now available as an open source project built on the Clang/LLVM framework. Microsoft drives the leading GPU shader language Since 2002, HLSL has been a key focus of industry collaboration on GPU programming. As the shader language for the popular DirectX12 API, HLSL is at the ...

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