ShaderConductor

ShaderConductor is a tool designed for cross-compiling HLSL to other shading languages (by microsoft)
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  • Shadertoys Ported to Rust GPU
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2025
    I think this is the way forward for shading languages.

    I'm writing a simple renderer with an OpenGL, Metal and Vulkan backend. I avoid using any shader transpiler such as Microsoft's ShaderConductor [0], as this adds a huge dependency to the project. As a hacky solution I'm simply maintaining a copy for each shading language (Metal Shading Language, GLSL, etc.). For a focused non-gaming project that seems easier.

    However, having a compiler that compiles a subset of the programming language I'm using for a project (such as Rust or C++) to the individual shading languages, sounds amazing, and would make shader writing when not using a game engine more joyful.

    [0] https://github.com/microsoft/ShaderConductor

  • Start project on Metal, port to DX11?
    3 projects | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 27 Apr 2023
    Have you seen this project: https://github.com/microsoft/ShaderConductor? It is maintained by Microsoft as well.
  • I'm sick of shader caches. The way Steam Deck handles them needs to improve:
    2 projects | /r/SteamDeck | 4 Sep 2022
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microsoft/ShaderConductor is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of ShaderConductor is C++.

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