Slang at SIGGRAPH 2025

Welcome to the Slang landing page for SIGGRAPH 2025. Here you’ll find information about our events and accompanying materials for our interactive lab, neural shading course, and Birds of a Feather session, and you can download our latest release, 2025.14.3. Please see our accompanying blog post for more information, or join us on Discord for questions or discussion.

Links to the materials for each session will be posted as they become available.

Hands-On Class: Introduction to Slang

Sunday, August 10, 4:00-5:30 PM PDT
West Building, Rooms 121-122

Join us for an introductory lab for the Slang shading language, covering topics from language basics to advanced features like generics and automatic differentiation.

This lab also includes a few small projects and coding puzzles so you can try out what is presented, using a new shader editor built for this lab! We also demo how Slang works with debuggers like RenderDoc, and port a GLSL shader live.

Download the full lab materials and slides below

Lab materials with slides »
Slides only »

The title and agenda slides from the lab. The agenda slide has a screenshot of vk_slang_editor and the course's agenda: language basics, using slangc, porting GLSL, shader I/O, debugging and tools, structs, modules, interfaces, SlangPy, and autodifferentiation.

Birds of a Feather: Developing with Slang

Wednesday, August 13, 2:30-3:30 PM PDT
British Ballroom, Fairmont Waterfront

The Slang shading language and compiler is a proven open-source technology empowering real-time graphics developers with flexible, innovative features that complement existing shading languages, including neural computation inside graphics shaders. Join us for the latest updates from the Slang Working Group and discussions around key shader community topics, including new capabilities and future directions, case studies, tools and techniques.

An Introduction to Neural Shading

Thursday, August 14, 9:00 AM-12:15 PM PDT
West Building, Rooms 109-110

This course teaches the fundamentals of neural shading, wherein traditional graphics algorithms are replaced with simple neural networks. Both theory and practical implementation will be covered, along with hardware acceleration, and production deployment. Follow along with the instructors using interactive samples written in Python & Slang!

Download the full materials from the following repo

Neural shading material repo »

For more information about SIGGRAPH 2025, visit the official conference website.