Super cool! Might be nice to have a helper node you could add to scenes that just lets you trigger orchestrations from pure signals or more easily from animation players, so you could stay out of the script editor completely for the really simple stuff.
crittecol
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Like others have said, it's pretty much the same as web development. The logic can live anywhere, so you could build your own app with whatever architecture you want and even use best practices from other fields as inspiration (Like the Redux comment.)
What we're missing is mostly more people actually doing it, having opinions on how best to organize app-like builds. I've built some small apps using it but nothing complicated enough to answer these questions.
But there are some examples that are open source to look at.
https://github.com/LyffLyff/Veles
You could pretty easily do this as an autoload so it's accessible from anywhere. You could store the actual state as a dictionary or a resource, or even a whole db if you wanted depending on what you're storing.
It's a little old but looks like someone even implemented a redux inspired store! https://github.com/glumpyfish/godot_redux
No idea if that still works, but probably would be too hard to use it as inspiration or even update it to the latest 3.x version
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I like gdfxr a lot, even placeholder sounds can help you work on sound timing and mixing and give you a way better sense of how things are feeling. As a bonus for some cases the sounds you can generate are perfectly fine for final usage.
Does this mean you're against using Godot for apps?
Personally, I feel like the extra load to reduce latency is worth it, but I honestly don't know how different the load is or how much it could be optimized. But really snappy reactive software, even when long-running processes are going, feel much better to use. I'm getting tired of using web apps for everything.
As far as what does the GPU do, right now if we're talking like b2b stuff you could do a lot more local number crunching or do really rich graphs with compute shaders etc. In the future, maybe the CPU handles most of the app and the GPU handles an AI workload in the background?