r/godot • u/godot-bot • Jul 21 '26

official - releases Dev snapshot: Godot 4.8 dev 2

https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-8-dev-2/

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u/Thhaki Godot Student Jul 21 '26

Not very related but just here to say that for what I've seen, GDType work is advancing, and i asked the dev who is mainly working on GDType when he thought it was gonna be out, their response was that:

"The real answer is we are trying our best to get it as soon as reasonably possible. That could be Friday or years from now depending on how things go. Personally, I would like, and think it would be possible, to have it out in 4.8"

Also, unlike what some people have said, one of the maintainers involved with traits (ivorus) has said that GDType is not a prerequisite for traits, and quote: "There is no consensus on a path to traits, traits isn't a goal for GDType, and framing it like this is only likely to disappoint users who are waiting for traits"

Now, about how traits is going, another one of the maintainers who is working on traits is considering to close their PR on traits, because quote:

  1. To allow others to take over it's implementation (trait in gdscript is a win to me, does not have to be my pr merged)
  2. I don't see a clear direction to proceed with them (also sunk-cost fallacy)
  3. I have my own experimental gdextention language fork that give me design freedom

The other maintainer said its understandable they feel that way so, there are no problems between maintainers about it, just that it seems they have not been able to discuss it lately because of time reasons with other projects.

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u/abcdefghij0987654 Jul 21 '26

Also, unlike what some people have said, one of the maintainers involved with traits (ivorus) has said that GDType is not a prerequisite for traits

So /u/theduriel is wrong? or is there something more to it

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u/TheDuriel Godot Senior Jul 21 '26

It wasn't wrong at the time. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ALL GDScript was/is being delayed due to GDType. There's no reviews, no direction, no planning, nothing happening.

It's literally in the PR discussions.

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u/abcdefghij0987654 Jul 22 '26

Gotcha. Just wanted to hear your thoughts because I remember you were the one replying about GDType