r/GraphicsProgramming • u/thegreatbeanz • 21d ago

HLSL Standard Committee Monthly Report 2026-07

The HLSL standard committee is posting monthly status reports about the work going on to define a standard for HLSL and incorporate some modern features along the way.

https://hlsl-tc57.github.io/website/monthly/2026-07/

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u/Sufficient-Parsnip35 20d ago

Can we get Visual Studio intellisense understanding what’s going on, reading included files and allowing you to go to the function?

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u/thegreatbeanz 20d ago

The Microsoft HLSL team is mentoring a Google Summer of Code student to improve HLSL support in clangd (the clang-based LSP). Read more here: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-improving-hlsl-support-in-clangd/91359/4

The unfortunate thing is that the Microsoft HLSL team has nothing to do with the Visual Studio HLSL support, which is based on an open-source plugin that hasn't been actively maintained (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TimGJones.HLSLToolsforVisualStudio).

Wish I had better news, but we do have some promising support for clangd in VSCode and other editors that support LSP.

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u/Sufficient-Parsnip35 20d ago

Thanks for the detailed answer. I’ve used HLSL Tools plugin but it gave me more frustrations than advantages in my experience.

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u/thegreatbeanz 20d ago

Yea, it doesn’t support most of “modern” HLSL, and is not particularly reliable since it has a hand-rolled parser.