The article describes an implementation detail: it's still a flag and can still be misused, but the article cleverly avoids discussing how. Component/entity-bas

The article describes an implementation detail: it's still a flag and can still be misused, but the article cleverly avoids discussing how. Component/entity-based engines (which is basically what the proposed solution is) have been around for like 20+ years. Here's me asking about it over a decade ago[1]. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4941953/the-composite-pattern-entity-system-and-traditional-oop https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4941953/the-composite-pa...