WGSL Tools

A work in progress!

This project will implement the necessary tools to build complex shaders, like naga_oil does for bevy, but in a framework-agnostic way. At wgsl-tooling-wg, we aim at standardizing a few language extensions to facilitate the work of engine developers and shader wizards.

This will be the home of a few wgsl source manipulation tools:

• A syntax tree, allows representing wgsl source.
• A parser, converts source to the syntax tree and provides human-readable error messages.
• (TODO) A checker, verify that a wgsl code is correct.
• (TODO) Various implementations of wgsl language extensions, the first ones will be imports and generics.

Goals

• Correct, mirror concepts present in the wgsl spec.
• Flexible, allow extending the wgsl syntax with well-defined extensions (see wgsl-tooling-wg).
• User-friendly, by sticking to the spec as much as possible, by providing clear and well-documented interfaces.

Non-goals

• Performant, we care about correctness, less so about time and memory constraints. The interface must be as user-friendly as possible. These tools target offline compilation first.