charleszw

I will also say encapsulating everything you just said in a single term, "islands," is a lot simpler and prettier to discuss. At least from my perspective, the naming also makes a lot of sense. Literal islands of interactivity surrounded by an ocean of static.

See also the Slang shader language, it's a pretty recent development! https://shader-slang.org

That omelette does look delicious though.

Yes, I constantly use this pattern in C++/JavaScript, although I haven't tested how performant it is in the former (what does the compiler even do with such an expression?)