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Re:A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Ga... by spankalee on Saturday December 28, 2019 @02:39PM (#21901188)
But the complaints about OOP in the article are all about the difficulty in modeling orthogonal traits in a single-inheritance hierarchy. That is definitely addressed with mixins.

Nothing in the "Inheritance isn't Always the Best Tool for the Job" section talks about runtime changes in behavior.

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Re:A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Ga... by skybrian on Saturday December 28, 2019 @09:25PM (#21903465)
It does touch on it towards the end:

> Most object-oriented languages are designed so that an object's underlying type will be the same for its entire lifetime. This makes things interesting when users want to scale a Circle without maintaining aspect ratio.

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