I might have expressed myself in an ambiguous and extravagated way, just to be clear, I was not complaining about WGSL. I actually do like it a little better th

I might have expressed myself in an ambiguous and extravagated way, just to be clear, I was not complaining about WGSL. I actually do like it a little better than GLSL and HLSL, though it still leads to more standards / fragmentation. And exactly, Apple did not want SPIR-V (a bytecode) and proposed WebHLSL (a textual source language) instead. So, I think my statement that Apple preferred a textual format over a bytecode is correct. They could have proposed another bytecode format, but as you noted, nobody did. It does not really matter anyway, because the GPU hardware and software paradigms are still undergoing rapid change. And there are a whole lot of under-specified things like memory models, scheduling order, control flow uniformity etc. which I expect will take another iteration of standards to be established.