Timothy Lochner

Writing a blog post on Data Oriented Design. Any skeptics want to share their worries/criticisms? Looking to address some of the most common ones.

My concern: DoD is by design quite low level and can be a leaky abstraction (people baking in knowledge about their target hw into assumptions about data). On a single project this might be beneficial, but is dangerous if becomes “standardized” and dogmatic.

It can also lead to a similar *reversal* of logic/reasoning - instead of analyzing and understanding the data, retro-fitting it to their HW or systems (like ECS which I am personally not a big fan of - it’s a great tool, but not for everything!).