For anyone looking for some IDEs to tinker around with shaders:

* shadertoy - in-browser, the most popular and easiest to get started with

* Shadron - my personal preference due to ease of use and high capability, but a bit niche

* SHADERed - the UX can take a bit of getting used to, but it gets the job done

* KodeLife - heard of it, never tried it

dleeftink 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Cables[0] is pretty cool too. Kirell Benzi has released some impressive work using it [1].

crtasm 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Had a look in Mint's software manager and found this (flatpak/aur/macports/windows): https://github.com/fralonra/wgshadertoy

endanke 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Also on macOS (and iPadOS) it's super easy to get started with Metal shaders in Playgrounds.

	▲	bored-developer 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		For swiftUI+metal specifically: https://metal.graphics

pengaru 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's also bonzomatic which the demo scene uses for shader live coding competitions: