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What is MSL?

MSL stands for Mars Science Laboratory, a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA. It includes the Curiosity rover, which is used for exploring the Martian surface, studying its climate and geology, and assessing whether the selected field site inside Gale Crater has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life. It is commonly used for scientific research and exploration of Mars.

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What other technologies are related to MSL?

MSL Competitor Technologies

HLSL

HLSL (High-Level Shading Language) is a shading language developed by Microsoft. It competes with MSL (Metal Shading Language) as a language for programming shaders on GPUs, though HLSL is primarily used with DirectX.

mentioned alongside MSL in 2% (52) of relevant job posts

MSL Complementary Technologies

Metal

Metal is a low-level, low-overhead hardware acceleration API. MSL is the shading language used to program Metal. Thus, Metal complements MSL as it is the API that MSL code targets.

mentioned alongside MSL in 1% (56) of relevant job posts