I'm working with an ECS at $dayjob. But I'm starting to question one aspect of them. Composition of functionality makes sense. And systems acting independently and only on objects with related components makes sense.
But dynamically updating the set of components for an entity in order to "send it" to some other system, and relying on the ECS as a query database to coordinate all this, seems like questionable practice to me. I'm seeing more and more of that in our systems.
I think ECSes are becoming too dynamic, and will start to eat perf, and hide relations. Like some message bus.
But dynamically updating the set of components for an entity in order to "send it" to some other system, and relying on the ECS as a query database to coordinate all this, seems like questionable practice to me. I'm seeing more and more of that in our systems.
I think ECSes are becoming too dynamic, and will start to eat perf, and hide relations. Like some message bus.
Anyone else with the same gut feeling?