Shaders now are managed by a manger that can do hot reloading and it also will detect a bad shader and use an ERROR shader so you know it's busted visually.

shaders.hpp

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+#pragma once
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <vector>
+#include <string>
+#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>
+#include <unordered_map>
+#include <memory>
+#include "matrix.hpp"
+#include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
+
+namespace shaders {
+  struct Record {
+    std::string name;
+    std::string file_name;
+    std::shared_ptr<sf::Shader> ptr = nullptr;
+  };
+
+  struct ShaderManager {
+    std::unordered_map<std::string, Record> shaders;
+  };
+
+  void init();
+  bool load_shader(std::string& name, nlohmann::json& settings);
+  sf::Shader* get(std::string name);
+  void reload();
+}