10 months ago

So, Scratch 4.0.


I'm sure you've all heard the news, and if you haven't you've probably seen me joking about it, but yes; Scratch 4.0 is currently under active development at the Scratch Foundation.

I'm not going to elaborate on anything specifically regarding what I think about it, I'm just going to cut to the chase.

4.0, at least right now, appears to be built off of 3.0 in such a way that Unsandboxed should be able to make a smooth migration. That is subject to change, as it has a projected release of 2025, and a lot can happen between now and then.

In other words, no, this will probably not affect Unsandboxed's development, but we might have to slow down even further until more information about it is out.

To answer the question of why we'd bother migrating to begin with: firstly, why not? I'm self-employed, I've got nothing else better to do! Secondly, 4.0 is allegedly built off of modern Blockly, which has actual documentation and is far better and more powerful than what Scratch uses. The work would pay off and give you guys a far better Unsandboxed experience, should we go through with it.

If you didn't know 4.0 was a thing until this post... yeah. It is. Happy birthday!

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thank goodness, i was worried

Being an active user of the mod you work on is really weird. It's like you can really see the gaps in what you've developed.

Clones+ V2 already gained an extra block just from working on this shit.

After some serious consideration, we caved and decided to make a Discord server. However, access will be extremely limited and invites extremely limited.

The invite below is limited to 10 people from our GameJolt community.

https://discord.gg/MnrPwNuNDt

Scratch requires so little motive effort to make your ideas into reality. To have designed an assistant to essentially do the problem solving for you goes far against what Scratch is designed for and is opposed to its own values.

What were they thinking.

camera zoom is kinda working

Unsandboxed jank that I could fix anytime but I can't be arsed #1: This block is broken*

What if I told you Scratch are implementing basically the same thing as CodeTorch, a fucking AI assistant to "help you" with your code.

I am just fucking floored with the backwardsness of Scratch's development team.

Take this as an apology for my lack of custom branch blocks... I promise they're coming 🥺

In case you're curious about what that option is even for in my previous post, it validates whether a target actually exists in a selection