KVkvark·Jun 1, 2025
Sure. Maybe that's the forcing function for them to nail down all the kinks. Example: https://github.com/kvark/blade/issues/205
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3 sourcesWe tried something like this with piet-gpu-hal. One problem is that spirv-cross is lossy, though gaps in target language support are getting better. For example, a device scoped barrier is just dropped on the floor before Metal 3.2. Atomics are also a source of friction.
But the main problem is not the shader language itself, but the binding model. It's a pretty big mess, and things change as you go in the direction of bindless (descriptor indexing). There are a few approaches to this, certainly reinventing WebGPU is one. Another intriguing approach is blade[1] by Dzmitry Malyshau.
I wish the authors well, but this is a hard road, especially if the goal is to enable more advanced features including compute.
[1]: https://github.com/kvark/blade
In Layers All the Way Down: The Untold Story of Shader CompilationWhat I find interesting is that kvark, the open source contributor that made Linux port possible was the main developer on wgpu at Mozilla, yet he decided to build an alternative [1] to wgpu that he used for zed. I wonder what's the rational for that.
[1]: https://github.com/kvark/blade
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