I don’t really get the “I’ve been trying to use the web for something it isn’t meant to do (graphics programming)” sentiment or the question.
What you have produced is wonderful, but has nothing to do with the web. That’s like comparing apples and oranges.
The web was built for images. All the glsl you have is rendering to that image. Cpp or whatever, your problem domain is pixel shader. A program, run on a gpu, for a single pixel and ray marching through a dataset on also on a gpu. It’s a hardware problem why debugging is so hard. Unfortunately, this is the reality of graphics programming in general.
Vite, React, Typescript, etc etc are all faff exterior to what you are doing.
If you want debugging tools and a good graphics programming experience, and a simple view with some interactivity something like Unitt, Godot, TouchDesigner or if you want lower level, OpenFrameworks, Processing, etc. would be leaner.
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I don’t really get the “I’ve been trying to use the web for something it isn’t meant to do (graphics programming)” sentiment or the question.
What you have produced is wonderful, but has nothing to do with the web. That’s like comparing apples and oranges.
The web was built for images. All the glsl you have is rendering to that image. Cpp or whatever, your problem domain is pixel shader. A program, run on a gpu, for a single pixel and ray marching through a dataset on also on a gpu. It’s a hardware problem why debugging is so hard. Unfortunately, this is the reality of graphics programming in general.
Vite, React, Typescript, etc etc are all faff exterior to what you are doing.
If you want debugging tools and a good graphics programming experience, and a simple view with some interactivity something like Unitt, Godot, TouchDesigner or if you want lower level, OpenFrameworks, Processing, etc. would be leaner.