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

https://discord.gg/MnrPwNuNDt

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