When, if ever, are Pure ECS/Dots editor tools coming?

Why? I rename classes always with file names and it never breaks anything. It can't because Unity serialization system identifies MonoBehavior classes by asset GUIDs. Unless you also delete Meta files manually (or your IDE is messing something up, I use Rider), there shouldn't be a problem.

 

What @runner78 means is, that if you have some class like

Code (CSharp):

1. class MyMBClass: MonoBehaviour

You should have also MyMBClass.cs
If you change, or misspell class name, or file name, one but not both, then unity will throw an error. class- file names must match.

 

I mean if you rename the filename outside of Unity, the renamed file will be recognized as a new file with new GUID.
So far in know, the file and classname can different (Unlike in PHP with composer autoloading).

 

Not true, it works fine in VS2019

 

That's because if you rename file in VS2019 it is smart enough to also rename meta file along with it. So GUID is not changed. Who would rename assets manually anyway without renaming also meta files? That's always not a good idea unless you want new GUID for whatever reason.

 

Yup, though I didn't know that changing the name or moving it via Unity Editor retains the references. Good to know.