Microsoft's new DirectX Shader Compiler is now Open Source

[WYP]

Microsoft's new DirectX Shader Compiler is now Open Source, allowing developers to know exactly how it works and even implement their own improvements.



Read more on Microsoft Open Sourcing their new DirectX HLSL compiler.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I like what they are doing. Hopefully they don't randomly back track on there current choices.

 

[Warchild]

I like what they are doing. Hopefully they don't randomly back track on there current choices.

I guess its down to what I see as the lack of success of DX12. If it doesnt shine like the hype, it doesn't persuade those win 7/8 users who are defiant towards Win10

Doing things like this can help push DX12 the way most expected it and give us promising things.