Godot Crimes

This document contains a list of issues in Godot that I consider code crimes.

Active Crimes

These crimes have not been addressed and are still issues in the Godot codebase.

• is_polygon_clockwise returns the opposite result
• @tool script says function does not exist when it does
• inverse is an inferior version of affine_inverse
• Godot cannot determine the type of autoloads
• Float values NaN and INF are displayed as 0 in debugger and inspector
• get_contact_local_position returns global position
• Cubemaps are not oriented consistently between rendering pipelines
• Godot always runs scripts in deserialized resources
• Godot doesn’t export dependencies
• reduce in Godot returns first value in array when accumulator is null

Solved Crimes

These crimes have been addressed and are no longer issues in the Godot codebase.

• Exported variables of inherited scenes are aliased, fixed for Godot 4.3

Pardoned Crimes

I no longer consider the following items as crimes.

• Lambdas do not capture local variables; Godot actually passes everything by value to the closure and it just so happens that the value of Variant variables is itself a reference. I think this design is less confusing than any alternative I can think of.