Use case

I'm building a desktop app with Flutter, whose purpose is to let developers write, edit, and explore shaders for use in Flutter apps.

Flutter currently won't let me load shaders from anywhere but assets, which prevents any runtime shader work.

Proposal

This app requires that shader source code be compiled and loaded at runtime. It doesn't necessarily require that Flutter provide full support for shader compilation at runtime, assuming I'm able to include some other package that does compilation. However, this use-case does require that I be able to somehow load a shader at runtime that comes from somewhere other than assets.

There was a related issue to this that was closed: #124759