game:GetService()

[KieranKreates (elsa)]

Hello. I have just recently thought of this, would it be better to just use:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")

or

local ReplicatedStorage = game.ReplicatedStorage

which would be more useful and why?

[Operatik]

Canonically, you would use GetService as not all services are always available to use in the first place.

[anon2793720]

I’ve answered this question before here:

Uses of :Getservice

You use GetService() because it’s best practice. If you rename your services without using GetService(), your code will fail. If you want to improve speed of this - as GetService() is a function call - you can cache the result. However, since you’re calling it once to initialize a value, it really isn’t a massive performance impact at all. You should always use GetService() to make sure your code isn’t prone to fail due to a service being renamed or cannot be indexed by name as some services d…