I keep saying that the engine is just that little runtime attachment dangling off the end of the asset pipeline ;)
(and the same is becoming more and more true for shader compilers vs 3D APIs - all the interesting stuff is happening in the shader compiler, while the 3D API is just there to kick off shaders and feed them with input data)
(and the same is becoming more and more true for shader compilers vs 3D APIs - all the interesting stuff is happening in the shader compiler, while the 3D API is just there to kick off shaders and feed them with input data)