Dyson Sphere Program is so good. I haven't played Factorio yet, but I think it has all the same sorts of things that this article described.
When I started playing DSP at first, I was just putting stuff anywhere. Then I realized that there are advantages in trying to make things modular in a way roughly analogous with code. At the same time though, it is very different than code, as the design is spacial, not as abstract as coding. Refactoring code is very different as a result.
I've only played factorio demo (too expensive for me) but the parts seem almost identical. factorio doesn't have the different planets, and different solar systems, etc, AFAIK, but the basic by building blocks seem near identical to me.
The curved build surface causes lots of interesting aspects to arise.
When I started playing DSP at first, I was just putting stuff anywhere. Then I realized that there are advantages in trying to make things modular in a way roughly analogous with code. At the same time though, it is very different than code, as the design is spacial, not as abstract as coding. Refactoring code is very different as a result.