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WebGPU: Texture and Sampler Lets

Category

Graphics

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Proposed (Chrome Proposed)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Add a language feature to WGSL, `texture_and_sampler_let` that adds the ability to store texture and sampler objects into a let declaration in WGSL.

Motivation

To allow storing texture and samples in WGSL shaders into lets. This allows creating local names for what are usually global objects.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/pull/5389
• Firefox: No signal — Mozilla members have approved https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/pull/5389 and requested during weekly standardization meetings that we postpone filing standard positions until we reach Candidate Recommendation (CR) status in Q4.
• Safari: Closed Without a Position
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/459500757

Explainers: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/5339

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