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Shadeup Crash Course

If you're familiar with APIs like DirectX or vulkan, then this quick intro is for you, shadeup aims to bring the power of those APIs but without as much hassle. It's still a work in progress, but it's usable today.

Core values

Bridging Worlds: Shadeup smoothly connects CPU and GPU code, making it easier for them to work in tandem. You can write a function once and share it between the two without the need to hand-transpile.
Cleaner Syntax: One of the core principals while designing shadeup was the ability to distil an algorithm to its fundemental parts and keep the boilerplate hidden. With shadeup, you’ll find a more streamlined way to handle uniforms, buffer modifications, and texture drawings. Less clutter, more clarity.

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	The following is a specification for a language. This language is called Shadeup

	Shadeup is a language that makes writing shaders and computer graphics code easier, it's built on Typescript and looks similar to hlsl.
	Core values:
	- Easy to read, boilerplate is abstracted away
	- CPU/GPU Sharing of functions and data-structures. Write code once and reuse on the cpu or gpu.
	- Runs on webgpu

	Some basic syntax: