Can someone give me a pointer on how plugins or addons as gdscript packages generally work?

• godot-msgpack

  1 27 10.0 GDScript

  A MessagePack serializer implemented in pure GDScript / msgpack.org[GDScript]

I was searching the web to see if there's any solution available for godot. I found https://github.com/xtpor/godot-msgpack but it seems like it isn't really complete and the repo isn't maintained anymore (also, not sure if it is usable on godot 4). The README suggests users to copy the single gdscript file into a project, and this got me wondering , does Godot have anything similar to packages or modules system? Is gdscript packages a thing? Is plugin/addon system even meant to be used to write/distribute "packages"? (also is it called plugin? or addon? I feel confused)

• godobuf

  3 212 4.5 GDScript

  A Google Protobuf implementation for Godot / GDScript

I also stumbled upon this repo: https://github.com/oniksan/godobuf, and godobuf is a plugin that provide a protobuf serialization. (and sadly it seems like it doesn't support godot 4 yet) Does that mean approaching this problem by writing a plugin is the right way?

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• gdext

  12 2,427 9.6 Rust

  Rust bindings for Godot 4

  

I see, I've read about gdextension, looked into godot-rust/gdext but perhaps I didn't fully understand what it was. I thought gdextension lets you use languages other than gdscript or C# to code your project.

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