Welcome to Shipyard!

Shipyard is an Entity Component System focused on usability and speed. ECS is a great way to organize logic and data.

There are two main benefits to using an ECS:

1. Elegant approach for humans
   • Composition over inheritance
   • Separation of concerns
   • Less burdened by lifetimes
2. Optimal design for computers
   • Spatial locality
   • Less pointer chasing

However, programming with an ECS requires thinking about data and logic in a different way than you might be used to.

How does it work?

Components hold data. Entities are simple ids used to refer to a group of components.

Systems do the heavy lifting: updating components, running side-effects, and integrating with other parts of the code.