An experimental Graphics API that aims to be as easy to use as possible while enabling top-tier performance and modern feature set

• Shader declared, render graph, single dispatch approach
• Slang shading language
• Automatically managed render targets declared inside the shader
• Automatically built render graph from shader defined pipelies and render targets
• Bindless texture heap
• Bindless index and vertex buffer heaps. Vertex heaps are automatically bound to shaders by name
• Multi draw indirect only, but easy to use. Adding a pipeline to the render graph gives you a MDI buffer which you fill with draw commands either on the CPU or inside a compute shader

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  theme: mc
  layout: dagre
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flowchart TB
    A["Create Instance & Window"] --> B["Compile Shaders"]
    B --> C["Begin Frame"] & D["Add Pipeline(shader): multi-draw indirect buffer"]
    C --> D
    D --> E["Fill Multi-Draw Indirect Buffers"]
    E --> F["End Frame"]
    F --> C

Overview:

1. Create Instance & Window: Initialize the graphics API and create an OS window/context.
2. Compile Shaders: Use Slang (.slang) shaders, letting the API manage resource bindings and pipeline interfaces.
3. Begin Frame: Start a frame or render pass.
4. Add Pipeline: Reference compiled shaders, which constructs a pipeline and returns a multi-draw indirect (MDI) buffer for issuing draw commands.
5. Fill Multi-Draw Indirect Buffers: Write draw commands and resource bindings to the returned MDI buffers (either on the CPU or within a compute shader).
6. End Frame: Finish the frame and present the results.

See examples for a practical example of how shaders declare resources and render targets.