HLSL

High Level Shader Language - shading language. This programming language is the 109^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 255^th most popular programming language in Portuguese Wikipedia. Article “HLSL” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 9.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Portuguese) language version.

Since the creation of article “HLSL”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 388 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

High Level Shader Language is on the 255^th place in local ranking of programming languages in Portuguese Wikipedia and on the 109^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 62 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 977 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #39523 in January 2026
• Global: #41748 in May 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #245537 in March 2016
• Global: #69414 in June 2008

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) High-Level Shader Language		58.2874
2	Chinese (zh) 高级着色器语言		40.5686
3	Czech (cs) High Level Shader Language		30.8325
4	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		29.8854
5	Catalan (ca) High-Level Shader Language		23.9911
6	Dutch (nl) High Level Shader Language		22.6678
7	Arabic (ar) لغة التظليل عالية المستوى		22.2555
8	Russian (ru) HLSL		19.9188
9	Turkish (tr) Yüksek Seviye Gölgelendirme Dili		13.9716
10	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		11.8648

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "HLSL" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) High-Level Shader Language		2 138 882
2	Russian (ru) HLSL		193 132
3	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		116 397
4	German (de) High Level Shading Language		77 873
5	Chinese (zh) 高级着色器语言		67 841
6	Spanish (es) High Level Shader Language		31 200
7	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		29 369
8	Korean (ko) 고급 셰이더 언어		22 483
9	Italian (it) High Level Shader Language		20 183
10	Dutch (nl) High Level Shader Language		10 758

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "HLSL" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) High-Level Shader Language		2 917
2	Russian (ru) HLSL		232
3	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		159
4	Chinese (zh) 高级着色器语言		148
5	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		128
6	German (de) High Level Shading Language		75
7	Spanish (es) High Level Shader Language		58
8	Catalan (ca) High-Level Shader Language		32
9	Czech (cs) High Level Shader Language		21
10	Italian (it) High Level Shader Language		21

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "HLSL" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) High-Level Shader Language		181
2	Russian (ru) HLSL		38
3	German (de) High Level Shading Language		33
4	Italian (it) High Level Shader Language		21
5	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		20
6	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		18
7	Chinese (zh) 高级着色器语言		18
8	Dutch (nl) High Level Shader Language		16
9	Czech (cs) High Level Shader Language		14
10	Arabic (ar) لغة التظليل عالية المستوى		6

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "HLSL" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) لغة التظليل عالية المستوى		1
2	Catalan (ca) High-Level Shader Language		1
3	Czech (cs) High Level Shader Language		0
4	German (de) High Level Shading Language		0
5	English (en) High-Level Shader Language		0
6	Spanish (es) High Level Shader Language		0
7	Persian (fa) زبان سایه‌زنی سطح بالا		0
8	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		0
9	Italian (it) High Level Shader Language		0
10	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "HLSL" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) High-Level Shader Language		296
2	Chinese (zh) 高级着色器语言		225
3	Japanese (ja) High Level Shading Language		93
4	Portuguese (pt) HLSL		62
5	Korean (ko) 고급 셰이더 언어		51
6	Ukrainian (uk) HLSL		50
7	French (fr) High-Level Shading Language		37
8	Russian (ru) HLSL		34
9	Arabic (ar) لغة التظليل عالية المستوى		32
10	Spanish (es) High Level Shader Language		32

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لغة التظليل عالية المستوى
ca	Catalan High-Level Shader Language
cs	Czech High Level Shader Language
de	German High Level Shading Language
en	English High-Level Shader Language
es	Spanish High Level Shader Language
fa	Persian زبان سایه‌زنی سطح بالا
fr	French High-Level Shading Language
it	Italian High Level Shader Language
ja	Japanese High Level Shading Language
ko	Korean 고급 셰이더 언어
nl	Dutch High Level Shader Language
pt	Portuguese HLSL
ru	Russian HLSL
tr	Turkish Yüksek Seviye Gölgelendirme Dili
uk	Ukrainian HLSL
zh	Chinese 高级着色器语言

Best Rank

Portuguese: #245537 03.2016

Global: #69414 06.2008

Best Rank

Portuguese: #39523 01.2026

Global: #41748 05.2004

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