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# piet-wgsl
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This crate is currently a highly experimental proof-of-concept port of the piet-gpu renderer to the WGSL shader language, so it could be run on WebGPU. Depending on how well it works out, it may become the authoritative source for piet-gpu.
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The shaders are actually handlebars templates over WGSL, as it's important to share common data structures; it's likely we'll use the template mechanism to supply various parameters which are not supported by the WGSL language, for example to specify grayscale or RGBA buffer output for fine rasterization.
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This crate also uses a very different approach to the GPU abstraction than piet-gpu. That is essentially a HAL that supports an immediate mode approach to creating resources and submitting commands. Here, we generate a `Recording`, which is basically a simple value type, then an `Engine` plays that recording to the actual GPU. The idea is that this can abstract easily over multiple GPU back-ends, without either the render logic needing to be polymorphic or having dynamic dispatch at the GPU abstraction. The goal is to be more agile.
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Scene encoding is shared with piet-gpu, and currently uses piet-scene in the same repo with no changes.
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This module is still an experimental work in progress. Contributions can be made with the same policy as the root repo, but expect things to change quickly.
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