--- title: Developers said…2026 Shader Ecosystem Survey Results description: Khronos has published the 2026 Real-Time Shading Ecosystem Survey Report, based on responses from over 400 shader developers, graphics programmers, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/developers-said-2026-shader-ecosystem-survey-results-m62s9sidq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Developers said…2026 Shader Ecosystem Survey Results | daily.dev og:description: Khronos has published the 2026 Real-Time Shading Ecosystem Survey Report, based on responses from over 400 shader developers, graphics programmers, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/developers-said-2026-shader-ecosystem-survey-results-m62s9sidq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/M62S9SidQ.png og:image:alt: Developers said…2026 Shader Ecosystem Survey Results og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Developers said…2026 Shader Ecosystem Survey Results **[Khronos](https://daily.dev/sources/khronos)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Khronos has published the 2026 Real-Time Shading Ecosystem Survey Report, based on responses from over 400 shader developers, graphics programmers, and rendering engineers. Key findings: shader debugging and profiling is the top pain point by a wide margin (53% ranked it a top-3 issue, average pain score 52/100). GLSL leads shading language usage at 60%, followed by HLSL (41%), SPIR-V (39%), and Slang at 34%. Cross-platform shader porting affects 64% of developers. Linux usage is surprisingly high at 74%, indicating a significant non-games developer base. There is strong community interest (73%) in participating in Khronos working groups, and high demand for a cross-vendor shader debugging standard. The community also expressed interest in Khronos stewarding projects like VCC/Shady and Rust-GPU. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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