> Plus, not all engines have the same data layout, so an “effect crate” would either require your engine to work a very specific way, or would require integrati

> Plus, not all engines have the same data layout, so an “effect crate” would either require your engine to work a very specific way, or would require integration work that would probably defeat the purpose of using a package manager in the first place. You could say the same thing about nodes in shader graph systems, but in practice they work quite well. > It can’t be worth the headaches, especially when you consider how a TON of devices still only support OpenGL, which not only requires runtime compilation of shaders (so only GLSL unless your app ships a cross compiler) You can AOT compile SPIR-V to GLSL with SPIRV-Cross.