halvnykterist

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by halvnykterist 4y ago
Invalid pointer dereferencing isn't guaranteed to cause segfaults, you might just get garbage memory or nasal demons from LLVM handling undefined behavior. That's the key advantage of using integers (or a GC'd language) - it&
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by halvnykterist 5y ago
While lockstep is useful for some games, it was never really a good choice for fighting games due to the fast and timing sensitive nature. Rollback is an improvement over it that adds speculative execution for remote inputs, this is what sh
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by halvnykterist 5y ago
The crucial difference between having a vector of components is in access patterns - in ECS you iterate over entities that have a given set of component, using queries, with entities that have vectors of components you're still iterati
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by halvnykterist 5y ago
> Composition over inheritance (especially in Rust, which doesn't really have inheritance - although you can fake it with traits) This does not require ECS, you can happily have something like struct Entity { components: V
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by halvnykterist 5y ago
I think the idea that you need something like ECS to deal with mutability everywhere is a misconception. Traditional architectures you'd use in C or C++ are all going to more or less have a tree-based ownership graph, and these transla
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by halvnykterist 5y ago
I think Kyren's 2018 CustConf talk [0] caused it to become popular earlier. Arewegameyet has an entire section for ECS crates, with 10 different entries. I'm aware of multiple smaller homegrown solutions, too. https://k
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by halvnykterist 5y ago
I can't help but be heavily skeptical of approaches to a (traditional) roguelike that use ECS. The idea is very entrenched in the rust gamedev community, but for a turn based tile based game there's extremely little benefit and a
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by halvnykterist 6y ago
Debugging in VS actually works pretty well already, the msvc target generates PDB files. It's what I use when need to attach a debugger to something. Actual language support would be really nice, though. Hopefully MS are already workin