Yeah that seems like it would be ideal since it would satisfy both use cases. I’m just using OpenGL right now and hoping to port to WebGPU (and the correspondi

Yeah that seems like it would be ideal since it would satisfy both use cases. I’m just using OpenGL right now and hoping to port to WebGPU (and the corresponding native libraries) when it comes out. If the performance is adequate maybe I’ll skip porting to Vulkan altogether. So to dynamically load shaders I’d prefer not to have to ship a separate shader compiler on every platform. I also worry that a separate shader compiler implementation (used mostly offline) might not have as good portability/security/performance as something that’s part of a web standard and implemented directly by browser vendors, although that’s not guaranteed I guess. Of course this doesn’t matter to game engines that always compile shaders up front and already support SPIR-V. But a lot of existing WebGL code isn’t like that. The rest of the API doesn’t look too complex, so if there was an easy way to input shaders (of course in addition to SPIR-V) I think it would go a long way to making it a total replacement for existing WebGL code.