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v0.10.8: non-blocking uniforms, structured errors, and a new gallery

Rafael Beckel
Rafael Beckel
Maintainer

v0.10.8 lands three focused improvements informed by real-world use of the library, plus a refreshed visual front for the website.

Non-blocking shader.set()

Section titled “Non-blocking shader.set()”

Uniform updates queue a last-wins write that the renderer flushes right before binding, without taking a lock on the render thread. Per-frame updates from worker threads are now safe at the API level. Read methods still return ShaderError::Busy when another consumer holds the lock; writes always succeed.

Structured error variants

Section titled “Structured error variants”

RendererError now includes MsaaViewMissing and DepthSampleCountMismatch. InitializationError includes AdapterNotSet. Callers can match on these as enum variants and design recovery paths around them.

A live shader demo

Section titled “A live shader demo”

The homepage gets a ShaderHero component that runs an interactive shader at the top of the page. The component is the basis for a future gallery of works and serves as a continuous visual check of support across browsers.

Smaller things

Section titled “Smaller things”
  • WASM memory is pre-grown by 64 MiB at initialization, eliminating a class of mid-frame memory.grow stalls during the first few frames.
  • Pass infers its kind (render vs compute) from the first attached shader; the kind no longer has to be set explicitly.
  • The npm package ships branded JS prototypes, so instanceof checks survive minification. (Details in v0.10.9 below.)

Full changelog: GitHub v0.10.8.

— Rafael

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