For at least the last ten years, maybe fifteen, on the GameDev.net forums you haven't been able to swing a dead cat without hitting somebody going on and on abo

For at least the last ten years, maybe fifteen, on the GameDev.net forums you haven't been able to swing a dead cat without hitting somebody going on and on about entity/component systems or pushing them as the One True Path, or trying to create their own implementation. It's probably worse now that Unity is so big. I'm not sure it is something I would pitch at beginning programmers, and there are a lot of them that wander into that, decide they are going to follow that advice, make a big mess, then wind up asking Hodgman and the handful other saintly regulars that keep that place going, to help them out.