My (long term) goal is to learn all things about shaders so I am interested in this; currently I don’t know the answer. This question goes with the question you asked a few days ago: Compute shader example does not work (I think it would have been less confusing if you had post this there). You raised a github issue (linked on that ticket) which is good to do ( Compute shader example does not work · Issue #10861 · defold/defold · GitHub) and the devs are responding to that, and not so much in three places at once, maybe this is kind of a different question.
Is there a working example of a compute shader anywhere? It would be good to have one on the examples page (which is fantastically useful, small examples without ott bells and whistles:-) There probably is one, and I have forgotten where.