Comment by Permik
16 days ago
Obligatory "Torille!" as a fellow Finn.
Fun coincidence that you started this project, I've had this exact same idea brewing for a few years, but did not bite the bullet yet :D
Have you considered using Bevy as a base ECS as they have an automatic archetype (shape) handling in the library? This was essentially my original idea, to implement a JS runtime on top of Bevy. (And over the years slap together a browser after the JS starts working)
Torille!
I have not considered Bevy, no. I sort of assumed that it wouldn't be easy to adapt to (thinking that it is more of a game engine), though it might've well been an excellent option.
I _have_ thought about using Bevy as a rendering engine for some beautiful heap access animations. Imagine rows of little boxes, each row a heap vector and each box an item in it: The boxes blink as their memory is accessed. Oh what a sight it would be.
Yeah, Bevy is super, super modular and isn't really a game engine, it's just a general ECS framework that has lots of batteries made for it so you can make a game with it, but you don't have to.
It's so gd versatile so people have done cool weird stuff with it: https://www.nikl.me/blog/2024/bevy_ecs_as_data_layer_in_lept...