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It’s been about 6 months since I watched Catherine West’s excellent Using Rust for Game Development sent me down the Entity-Component-System (ECS) rabbit hole, and I thought I’d share some of my findings.
I’ve been meaning to write about this for quite a while now but it took a while to put my thoughts into a cohesive article without throwing massive walls of code at you.
This article is mainly focused around the high-level decisions you make when designing a project, so there won’t be as much code as normal.

Trait objects generally need to be stored on the heap. But normal heap datastructures like Vec need an additional layer of Box to store trait objects. We can eliminate that.