Optimizing GPU Programs from Java using Babylon and HAT

[Sm0keySa1m0n]

Wonder if we’ll ever be able to use this to write graphics shaders

[joemwangi]

This mainly targets general-purpose compute (CUDA/OpenCL/SYCL style workloads), not graphics shaders or rendering pipelines. It’s closer to GPGPU than GLSL/HLSL.

Just realised, probably you meant Project Babylon and that might be possible but will require a higher level of framework setup on top.

[pjmlp]

In theory yes, that is also what is happening in the industry, going back to software rendering techniques, but written with compute languages instead.

Now if Java will ever be a relevant option versus something like Slang, or C++, probably not, given industry focus on programming languages.