diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 82ab08363c..f386154fa8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 60
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
       - name: Install CI Libraries
         run: sudo ./ci/install-ci-libraries.sh 10
diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
index 37f809efb5..934baf2e8f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Test and Build
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
         with:
           profile: minimal
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 42a856f29f..5741484e8e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,4 +11,5 @@ vgcore.*
 
 #editors
 .idea/
+.vscode/
 
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0a211dcfda..aabd2bbf8b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -69,12 +69,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi 0.3.9",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "anyhow"
-version = "1.0.34"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bf8dcb5b4bbaa28653b647d8c77bd4ed40183b48882e130c1f1ffb73de069fd7"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "approx"
 version = "0.3.2"
@@ -407,15 +401,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "cmake"
-version = "0.1.45"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "eb6210b637171dfba4cda12e579ac6dc73f5165ad56133e5d72ef3131f320855"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "cocoa"
 version = "0.20.2"
@@ -1234,12 +1219,6 @@ version = "0.23.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f6503fe142514ca4799d4c26297c4248239fe8838d827db6bd6065c6ed29a6ce"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "glob"
-version = "0.3.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9b919933a397b79c37e33b77bb2aa3dc8eb6e165ad809e58ff75bc7db2e34574"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "glyph_brush"
 version = "0.7.0"
@@ -2658,15 +2637,12 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "roc_editor"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
- "anyhow",
  "arraystring",
  "bumpalo",
  "bytemuck",
  "cgmath",
  "env_logger 0.7.1",
- "fs_extra",
  "futures",
- "glob",
  "glyph_brush",
  "im",
  "im-rc",
@@ -2697,7 +2673,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "roc_types",
  "roc_unify",
  "roc_uniq",
- "shaderc",
  "target-lexicon",
  "wgpu",
  "wgpu_glyph",
@@ -3232,26 +3207,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "opaque-debug",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "shaderc"
-version = "0.6.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "50b8aeaae10b9bda5cba66736a7e265f67698e912e1cc6a4678acba286e22be9"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
- "shaderc-sys",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "shaderc-sys"
-version = "0.6.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5b12d7c62d6732884c9dfab587503fa3a795b108df152415a89da23812d4737e"
-dependencies = [
- "cmake",
- "libc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "signal-hook-registry"
 version = "1.2.2"
diff --git a/compiler/unify/src/unify.rs b/compiler/unify/src/unify.rs
index 89fe4b44e9..c3767540ad 100644
--- a/compiler/unify/src/unify.rs
+++ b/compiler/unify/src/unify.rs
@@ -1239,5 +1239,8 @@ fn gather_tags(
 }
 
 fn is_recursion_var(subs: &Subs, var: Variable) -> bool {
-    matches!(subs.get_without_compacting(var).content, Content::RecursionVar { .. })
+    matches!(
+        subs.get_without_compacting(var).content,
+        Content::RecursionVar { .. }
+    )
 }
diff --git a/editor/.gitignore b/editor/.gitignore
index 27ca244cf3..8b13789179 100644
--- a/editor/.gitignore
+++ b/editor/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-*.spv
+
diff --git a/editor/Cargo.toml b/editor/Cargo.toml
index 43d2ff5c29..4e1e639c8f 100644
--- a/editor/Cargo.toml
+++ b/editor/Cargo.toml
@@ -74,8 +74,11 @@ indoc = "0.3.3"
 quickcheck = "0.8"
 quickcheck_macros = "0.8"
 
-[build-dependencies]
-anyhow = "1.0"
-fs_extra = "1.1"
-glob = "0.3"
-shaderc = "0.6"
+# uncomment everything below if you have made changes to any shaders and
+# want to compile them to .spv
+#[build-dependencies]
+#rayon = "1.5.0"
+#anyhow = "1.0"
+#fs_extra = "1.1"
+#glob = "0.3"
+#shaderc = "0.6"
diff --git a/editor/build.rs b/editor/build_shaders.rs
similarity index 76%
rename from editor/build.rs
rename to editor/build_shaders.rs
index 7c80d06d23..52990c1c4c 100644
--- a/editor/build.rs
+++ b/editor/build_shaders.rs
@@ -2,9 +2,14 @@ use anyhow::*;
 use glob::glob;
 use std::fs::{read_to_string, write};
 use std::path::PathBuf;
+use rayon::prelude::*;
 
-// Build script for shaders used from:
-// https://sotrh.github.io/learn-wgpu/beginner/tutorial3-pipeline/#compiling-shaders-and-include-spirv
+// Adapted from https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu
+// by Benjamin Hansen, licensed under the MIT license
+
+
+// Rename this file to build.rs and uncomment the build-dependencies in Cargo.toml to compile
+// the shaders into .spv files
 
 struct ShaderData {
     src: String,
@@ -41,17 +46,16 @@ impl ShaderData {
 
 fn main() -> Result<()> {
     // Collect all shaders recursively within /src/
-    let mut shader_paths = [
-        glob("./src/**/*.vert")?,
-        glob("./src/**/*.frag")?,
-        glob("./src/**/*.comp")?,
-    ];
+    let mut shader_paths = Vec::new();
+    shader_paths.extend(glob("./src/**/*.vert")?);
+    shader_paths.extend(glob("./src/**/*.frag")?);
+    shader_paths.extend(glob("./src/**/*.comp")?);
 
-    // This could be parallelized
-    let shaders = shader_paths
-        .iter_mut()
-        .flatten()
-        .map(|glob_result| ShaderData::load(glob_result?))
+
+    let shaders = shader_paths.into_par_iter()
+        .map(|glob_result| {
+            ShaderData::load(glob_result?)
+        })
         .collect::<Vec<Result<_>>>()
         .into_iter()
         .collect::<Result<Vec<_>>>()?;
diff --git a/editor/src/shaders/rect.frag b/editor/src/shaders/rect.frag
index dbd8c522f7..2246d723b6 100644
--- a/editor/src/shaders/rect.frag
+++ b/editor/src/shaders/rect.frag
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 // Taken from https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu
 // by Benjamin Hansen, licensed under the MIT license
 
+// Check build_shaders.rs on how to recompile shaders if you have made changes to this file
+
 layout(location=0) in vec3 color;
 
 layout(location=0) out vec4 fColor;
diff --git a/editor/src/shaders/rect.frag.spv b/editor/src/shaders/rect.frag.spv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ae9c49a4ad
Binary files /dev/null and b/editor/src/shaders/rect.frag.spv differ
diff --git a/editor/src/shaders/rect.vert b/editor/src/shaders/rect.vert
index 4be9792857..3f885aa159 100644
--- a/editor/src/shaders/rect.vert
+++ b/editor/src/shaders/rect.vert
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 // https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu by Benjamin Hansen, licensed under the MIT license
 // https://github.com/cloudhead/rgx by Alexis Sellier, licensed under the MIT license
 
+// Check build_shaders.rs on how to recompile shaders if you have made changes to this file
+
 layout(set = 0, binding = 0) uniform Globals {
     // orthographic projection is used to transform pixel coords to the coordinate system used by wgpu 
 	mat4 ortho;
diff --git a/editor/src/shaders/rect.vert.spv b/editor/src/shaders/rect.vert.spv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..116f559047
Binary files /dev/null and b/editor/src/shaders/rect.vert.spv differ