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1. pjmlp+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-10-15 07:51:00
Except that shaders predate DirectX 8 by several decades.

Two major examples,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS34010

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RenderMan_Shading_Language

Also in DirectX 8, it wasn't as we know them today, because Assembly was the only programming language.

Nowadays CUDA does C, C++, Fortran, Python JIT in the box, and has partner collaborations for Haskell, Java, Julia, C#.

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