I strongly favor sticking to DRM-free text-based formats for the web. I remember learning a lot just from looking at the HTML and JS sources from web pages. It'

I strongly favor sticking to DRM-free text-based formats for the web. I remember learning a lot just from looking at the HTML and JS sources from web pages. It's been a great boon for the web up until now. Besides lots of apps already ship shaders as text. They get dynamically compiled and cached, just like JS does. Being text-based hasn't stopped JS from greatly improving performance. Khronos sat on their hands for years and only moved after Apple shipped Metal and AMD dumped Mantle in their laps (I'll note that Metal came first). SPIR-V is not the be-all end-all of shader programming. Personally I don't believe we should accept some lowest-common-denominator that puts the future of GPU development in the hands of an organization with the track record Khronos has wrt managing OpenGL. That goes double for the future of WebGPU. However I recognize those are just personal opinions and reasonable people may disagree. To those offering opinions here: If you've never written a renderer or shader can I suggest you write a toy project using both then see if you still have the same opinion?