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Everything is in the title: is there any downsides to Autoload/Singletons ?

I'm quite new when it comes to GameDev and Godot in general, and I learnt about autoloads a few months ago. I've tried not to use them too much and really push forward the usage of class with static functions/variables, signals and other methods to keep my code organized.

But when I look at Autoloads, it just seems so powerfull and it seems like it could be used to pretty much anything. So here's my question, apart from the fact that you could easily end up with a messy code structure, is there any downsides with them ? For example does it take more memory to run, more performances ? Something else ? Or is it just a very handy option I should use more often ?

I'm really curious about it, thanks !

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The code below used to take up just...all the space, an if statement for every word amongst other inefficient code. Im sure theres an even better way of doing the same thing but man, Woo! Just felt like sharing my days minor accomplishment with y'all.

Learning Note!: I learned doing this, that - Array.pop_front( ) is immeasurably less efficient than Array.pop_back( ). Because pop_back only returns (selects) and removes the final entry in the array, so its only targeting one entry. pop_front returns and removes the first entry but then has to shift all other entries down 1 spot because there always has to be a 0 option in an array.

func chooseWord():
  if WordArray.is_empty():
    print("Resetting WordArray")
    WordArray = ["Rat", "Car", "Box", "Map", "Key", "Pig", "Can", "Dog", "Hat", "Bat", "Bee",             "Arm", "Fly", "Saw", "Cow", "Ear", "Ice", "Sun", "Eye", "Gem", "Owl"]

    WordArray.shuffle()

  word = WordArray.pop_back()
  $ImageHint.texture = load("res://images/" + word + ".png")

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