Unity didn't have geometry instancing support?

Yeah, I'm just the opposite, I've only done an elaborate frag shader, haven't touched the 3D side at all yet.

But as a shader n00b, I feel tutorials is the place where Unity has really dropped the ball on shaders. They could get a lot of bang for their buck by producing a definitive set of clear tutorials about how they work. They don't even have to be video tutorials (which I personally hate, I'm a programmer, give me something to read, if you're so ADD you need a video you probably don't have the patience to write a shader anyway).

And since Unity's shader language is marginally non-standard they get some freebie lockin for everybody who learns to write them in Unity-speak.

 

Is Unity going to release an instanced version of each of their own shaders in addition to their existing non-instanced shaders?