binary code formats are not more compact than text formats. SPIR-V is particularly fat - you need four bytes to refer to a variable, which is less than what you

binary code formats are not more compact than text formats. SPIR-V is particularly fat - you need four bytes to refer to a variable, which is less than what you need in minified source. WHLSL is a great compilation target so it doesn’t prevent you from using whatever language you like.