If it was a system vended framework you wouldn’t be beholden to whether it’s installed or not. It would just be available from a given OS version onwards.

That means easier builds for the developer, smaller apps, receiving implicit upgrades in lockstep with the OS. Take the example of new metal versions enabling new optimization avenues. Bundling your own dependency would mean that you need to keep on top of the changes to take advantage of it , but with a system framework you’d get it whenever Apple’s engineers enable it.

Dawn & wgpu projects are great but having native WGSL support with-in Xcode would be pretty nice. They already have the whole spec implemented anyways, why not as a standalone framework?