[EddieRingle]

> I think ECS is a new enough architecture that the patterns are still very much folk lore.

ECS is a pretty old idea, built on concepts that are even older. I was playing around with an ECS-like engine of my own in C over 10 years ago, based on blog posts and talks that are now 20-25 years old. Even the Wikipedia article for ECS can trace the origins back to the 1960s. (Though obviously it hasn't been applied to video games for quite that long.)

Nowadays I'd probably reach for Godot and Kotlin if I just wanted to build a game in an ergonomic language on a solid foundation. You could still apply ECS concepts there, as well.