What I found in practice is that many people start using the ECS for speed, and then draw themselves into a corner of the design space. Now they have to weight every step on "how would it work in ECS?", and dedicate effort to fight the ECS paradigm.
For example, a mesh may contain multiple materials. Is each material chunk a separate entity? Or maybe each bone in a skeleton is a separate entity with its own "parent" and "transform" plus other component.
One of the different approaches is component graph systems [1]. It lacks the ability to mix and match components, but provides a more natural (and simpler) model to program for.
For example, a mesh may contain multiple materials. Is each material chunk a separate entity? Or maybe each bone in a skeleton is a separate entity with its own "parent" and "transform" plus other component.
One of the different approaches is component graph systems [1]. It lacks the ability to mix and match components, but provides a more natural (and simpler) model to program for.
[1] https://github.com/kvark/froggy/wiki/Component-Graph-System