Is it possible to write in shaders GLSL directly?

[Martenfur]

I was wondering if it’s possible to write shaders in GLSL and HLSL directly (essentially having two versions of the same shader) and then use them as standard Effect resources.

[KakCAT]

AFAIK it’s not possible, but years ago there was a branch that allowed that (I used it to release a game which had a problematic shader). It worked really well, it’s a shame it wasn’t continued, because mojoshader has always been a PITA for me.

No idea how usable that branch is nowadays though (I suppose not at all)

GLSL shaders

Monogame right now uses HLSL shaders for every platform, but when compiling for non-DirectX it is automatically converted into GLSL by a parser. I can see why you would want to learn GLSL over HLSL, but they are so similar that you don’t really miss out when choosing the one over the other. Java and C# are relatively different in comparison. It mostly comes down to different naming conventions (for example to get the fraction of a float you use frac() in HLSL and fract() in glsl, you use vec3 …