MImiga·Sep 8, 2021
Example of ECS that was published on GitHub before this patent was even filed: https://github.com/jonascarpay/apecs.git
In Unity patents ECSjonascarpay
apecs
Haskell2018–2021
jonascarpay / apecs
apecs
a fast, extensible, type driven Haskell ECS framework for games
2Distinct people
2Mentions
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425GitHub stars
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a fast, extensible, type driven Haskell ECS framework for games
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesHaskell's type system works because of purity, and purity doesn't generally mesh well with performance-oriented applications like game engines. There are some type-driven approaches to gamedev, like https://github.com/jonascarpay/apecs, but it's fairly experimental. There has been some talk about linear types, which would allow Haskell to have controlled impurity similar to Rust, but they're still a ways off.
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