This grew out from a much rantier (and worse) version of this article, which talked about the hurdles I faced when considering SPIR-V codegen for our research

This grew out from a much rantier (and worse) version of this article, which talked about the hurdles I faced when considering SPIR-V codegen for our research compiler (Thorin). For a while I wanted to rewrite it, and ultimately to properly discuss what I wanted to discuss, I had to write something introductory in a much broader sense. So it sort of organically grew from there, and that's why the title is now a bit weird, but I plan for the rest of the series to continue with SPIR-V as some sort of central reference point. It's fair to say DXIL suffers from this class of troubles too, there's a series themaister where he describes the awfulness of the story over there, but I don't work with DX and I wanted to make as few comments on that as possible to avoid saying something wrong and unverified. https://themaister.net/blog/2022/04/24/my-personal-hell-of-translating-dxil-to-spir-v-part-5/ https://themaister.net/blog/2022/04/24/my-personal-hell-of-t...