Comment by MindSpunk

Except that the conversion to WGSL is a complete waste of compute resources, engineering effort and the time of everyone involved. WebGPU is a _web_ API after all, even if people realized the runtimes could be used outside the browser.

Converting your SPIR-V to WGSL just to convert it back to SPIR-V to feed it into a Vulkan driver, or running an entire language frontend just to emit DXIL or Metal IR. We learned 15 years ago that textual shader languages at the GPU API interface are a mistake but we're forced to relearn the same mistakes because Apple wouldn't play ball. What a joke.