Consider wrapping Slang as part of Silk

[LouChiSoft]

Hi, I realise that Silk.NET has a dozen or so libraries that it already maintains and wraps, but I feel like Slang offers real benefit. For those who don't know Slang is a newer shading language that in there own words is "a shading language that makes it easier to build and maintain large shader codebases in a modular and extensible fashion, while also maintaining the highest possible performance on modern GPUs and graphics APIs."

It's backed by Nvidia and a whole host of universities and has an API for embedding the compiler into your own code. Vulkan has also recently announced their Slang initiative.

Slang does also have a render API abstraction layer, but it's currently being rewritten and not ready for production. And I'm not entirely convinced it's needed given Silk already has multiple render APIs

[Perksey]

Yep I want to do this for 3.0 as well! Hopefully shouldn’t take too long.

[LouChiSoft]

Awesome. I don't know the difficulty. but it would be pretty awesome if the reflection API could be used to auto-generate C# structs that map to the shader inputs