On: Three.js Shading Language

[bhouston]

Huh? It allows for programming via JavaScript which is then transpiled for WebGL or WebGPU. It doesn't seem fixed function at all.

[flohofwoe → bhouston]

It does look quite similar to how pixel rendering was configured in OpenGL 1.x or Direct3D up to D3D7 (you basically had a set of hardwired pixel operations which you could stack and combine via API calls).

Funny enough, the new work graph stuff in D3D12 is also configured in a similar way (by essentially building an AST-like tree of operations via API calls).

We really came around full circle ;)

[stanleykm → bhouston]

Yeah I get what it is, I was just making an observation of how the api appears.

[esperent → stanleykm]

By this logic we could call any API "fixed function" though.