ShaderLab - Programming language

ShaderLab is a programming language created in 2000.

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Early development of ShaderLab happened in https://github.com/tgjones/shaders-tmLanguage/issues
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Example from Linguist:

// From https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/PostProcessing,
// licensed under MIT licence.

Shader "Hidden/Post FX/Depth Of Field"
{
    Properties
    {
        _MainTex ("", 2D) = "black"
    }

    CGINCLUDE
        #pragma exclude_renderers d3d11_9x
        #pragma target 3.0
    ENDCG

    SubShader
    {
        Cull Off ZWrite Off ZTest Always

        // (0) Downsampling, prefiltering & CoC
        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
                #pragma multi_compile __ UNITY_COLORSPACE_GAMMA
                #pragma vertex VertDOF
                #pragma fragment FragPrefilter
                #include "DepthOfField.cginc"
            ENDCG
        }

        // (1) Pass 0 + temporal antialiasing
        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
                #pragma vertex VertDOF
                #pragma fragment FragPrefilter
                #define PREFILTER_TAA
                #include "DepthOfField.cginc"
            ENDCG
        }

        // (2-5) Bokeh filter with disk-shaped kernels
        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
                #pragma vertex VertDOF
                #pragma fragment FragBlur
                #define KERNEL_SMALL
                #include "DepthOfField.cginc"
            ENDCG
        }

        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
                #pragma vertex VertDOF
                #pragma fragment FragBlur
                #define KERNEL_MEDIUM
                #include "DepthOfField.cginc"
            ENDCG
        }

        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
                #pragma vertex VertDOF
                #pragma fragment FragBlur
                #define KERNEL_LARGE
                #include "DepthOfField.cginc"
            ENDCG
        }

        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
                #pragma vertex VertDOF
                #pragma fragment FragBlur
                #define KERNEL_VERYLARGE
                #include "DepthOfField.cginc"
            ENDCG
        }

        // (6) Postfilter blur
        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
                #pragma vertex VertDOF
                #pragma fragment FragPostBlur
                #include "DepthOfField.cginc"
            ENDCG
        }
    }

    FallBack Off
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	// A comment
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