Show HN: Evolved.lua – An Evolved Entity Component System for Lua

&gt; Components are stored in contiguous arrays in a SoA (Structure of Arrays) manner, which allows for fast iteration and processing<p>Does this actually matter in Lua? Aren’t all array elements going to be pointers to heap allocated objects anyways?<p>The point of SoA is your likely to be accessed values are adjacent in memory, but if you’re chasing a pointer to get that value then you’re not getting anything out of it.

Cool to see a new ECS project! I&#x27;ve been learning and using JECS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ukendio&#x2F;jecs">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Ukendio&#x2F;jecs</a>) for a project of mine, and some of the core ideas (like Chunks) felt familiar. This project definitely seems to have a more in-depth documentation though and a <i>lot</i> more features especially by having its own scheduler stuff. Would love to try it out on a new project someday

Will give this a try. I was using claude code to make a small game in love2d, and really hoped for a nice lua ecs lib to help manage the game objects (its my first time playing around with game dev).

It always makes me happy to see people publishing Lua libraries in $YEAR. I am also working on Lua stuff. Thank you for posting!

One alternatives I like is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bakpakin.github.io&#x2F;tiny-ecs&#x2F;doc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bakpakin.github.io&#x2F;tiny-ecs&#x2F;doc&#x2F;</a>

What makes it an &quot;envolved&quot; ecs?

Any examples of projects using this?