Is entt useful for non-game software?

[idealist-dg]

I'm using entt to build EDA software.Maybe this is strange, but my original idea was to use entt to build more scalable and performant software.

1. Scalability
   EDA software contains many modules, and different modules need to use smart Pointers to frequently reference each other. After using entt, different modules only need to bind its specific components on the entity.

2. High performance
   Use entt to speed up special system update processes such as rendering.

The above is the starting point for me to use entt. Could you give me some professional advice?

3. I didn't learn entt very much, so I didn't know much about the deeper signaling and event mechanics of ENTT.I tried to use components as event tags, bind them to entities, and then retrieve and process them by other systems.Is it efficient to remove the event tag to indicate that processing is complete?
4. I also have a problem, my software needs to be undone and restored, so I often use registry.create and registry.destry. During this process, the entity returned by create has increased by ten times. I am new to ecs, I don't understand why it has leapfrocked. Since the user's undo recovery can be up to hundreds of times, I am concerned that it is beyond the range of uint32_t. Is this a problem?

Thank you for reading and replying.

[skypjack]

Is it efficient to remove the event tag to indicate that processing is complete?

Yes, it is. It depends on the implementation actually. EnTT is designed to make it the default because I use this approach a lot. 🙂

Since the user's undo recovery can be up to hundreds of times, I am concerned that it is beyond the range of uint32_t. Is this a problem?

What changes is the version actually. Try to look at entt::to_entity(identifier) and entt::to_version(identifier).
This isn't a problem anyway because the version wraps to 0 after a while. You can find more details in the documentation. 👍