HLSL/GLSL Insights

What is HLSL/GLSL?

HLSL (High-Level Shading Language) is a proprietary shading language developed by Microsoft for use with DirectX. It's primarily used in video games and other real-time 3D graphics applications to define the visual appearance of objects, including lighting, textures, and special effects. Shaders written in HLSL are executed on the GPU.

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What other technologies are related to HLSL/GLSL?

HLSL/GLSL Complementary Technologies

Vulkan

Vulkan is a low-level graphics API that uses HLSL/GLSL-based shader languages. It complements HLSL/GLSL by providing the API surface where the compiled shaders are used.

mentioned alongside HLSL/GLSL in 2% (128) of relevant job posts

Metal

Metal is a low-level graphics API from Apple that uses its own shading language, but is conceptually similar to Vulkan and DirectX, and can be considered complementary in that it provides a rendering target for graphics code.

mentioned alongside HLSL/GLSL in 2% (93) of relevant job posts

OpenGL

OpenGL is a graphics API that uses GLSL as its primary shading language. While older versions had a fixed pipeline, modern OpenGL relies heavily on shaders. Thus it is complementary to GLSL/HLSL

mentioned alongside HLSL/GLSL in 0% (65) of relevant job posts