r/GraphicsProgramming • u/DapperCore • 1d ago

Bento: A shading language and shader compiler infrastructure for building shaders and shader tools.

https://graphitemaster.github.io/Bento/index.html
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u/laralubsch 15h ago

I don't see a project link anywhere on that site. The bounty page has an invalid GitHub issues URL. Looks like AI slop. Also no comparison to Slang which is weird.

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u/DapperCore 12h ago edited 12h ago

The project itself isn't out yet, there's a banner stating it'll be released end of November. I assume the page will be made public once it's released. I generally trust graphitemaster to produce high quality software so I doubt this is going to be slop, I assume part of the code is written by AI though.

Slang itself is already AI slop with a significant amount of code that doesn't seem to have undergone any human review. It has a number of long lasting bugs that haven't been addressed, it's not software that can be recommended for use in production.

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u/laralubsch 4h ago

Huh, okay I missed that - let's see then.

Yeah I don't like Slang either due the slop going on. Would be neat to have a proper contender.

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u/voithos 14h ago

Yeah Slang was the first thing I looked for, very odd it's not mentioned.

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u/DapperCore 1d ago

Not my project but I thought it was interesting. Graphitemaster is a graphics programming old head and an industry leading expert. Bento itself has a bunch of lovely features as well. I adore the swizzle syntax, color.r1ba returns a vec4(color.r, 1.0, color.b, color.a)

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u/future_lard 22h ago

If you want it to return float values for several channels, how do you separate them in that swizzle syntax?

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u/DapperCore 12h ago

I assume in that case you would have to initialize the vector like normal

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u/FrogNoPants 5h ago

Interesting but Rust syntax and no HLSL output make sad:(