[aabhay]

If you want to get inspired by good component DX, try looking at Bevy, the game engine.

But essentially it comes down to traits, newtypes/enum variants, and macros.

[iTokio]

I did have a look at bevy ECS approach and find it very verbose and really foreign, it’s in « not rust anymore» territory. Macros are a dangerous tool in terms of long term maintainability and are hurting compilation times.

But it’s still really fresh, they are conscious of the issues and I hope bevy maintainers came up with an elegant design

[Animats]

Right. Bevy has its own run time allocation and dependency system, and it's <<not rust anymore>>. It bypasses Rust's compile time ownership system using unsafe code. The encapsulation may be safe due to run time checking. It's bothersome that such things seem to be needed.

[amelius]

> It's bothersome that such things seem to be needed.

Yes. Rust is not a general purpose language. It's a systems language. Don't use it for GUIs and games and such until somebody has figured out how to do it properly.

[usrnm]

All systems languages before Rust (granted, it's not a very long list) were successfully used for GUIs, games, embedded stuff and much more

[LoganDark]

You can't figure something out this complex without FAFO. Bevy is one flavor of FAFO. It seems to be working out alright so far.