[jsheard]

The answer to that for any given feature is "can untrusted code be trusted with that?". Wave intrinsics are probably doable. Bindless maybe, but expect a bunch of bounds checking overhead. Pointers/BDA, absolutely not.

Native libraries like wgpu can do whatever they want in extensions, safety be damned, but you're stepping outside of the WebGPU spec in that case.

[littlestymaar]

What's BDA in that context, please? I can only confidently assume it's not “battle damage assessment”.

[jsheard]

Buffer Device Address, the Vulkan name for raw pointers in shaders.

[littlestymaar]

Thx