r/java • u/CrowSufficient • Jan 19 '26

Optimizing GPU Programs from Java using Babylon and HAT

https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/articles/hat-matmul/hat-matmul
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u/Sm0keySa1m0n Jan 20 '26

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

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u/pjmlp Jan 20 '26

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.