1 month ago

So I can say for certain that Scratch 4.0 will depend on modern Blockly, which for now is being held together by the old GUI code from 3.0


Disclaimer: There is nothing to officially suggest that this is definitely for 4.0, but it pretty much almost certainly is.

"...Excuse me?"

For the record, we knew Scratch Team were experimenting with modern Blockly a few years ago, but I wasn't exactly clear on the details: was this going to be the future or Scratch or is this just some MIT students dicking around?

Well we have our answer. Scratch will now no longer be a fork of Blockly, it'll depend on it as a library. Not an archaic and very annoying to develop for Blockly either, the most modern and recent version.

This won't really mean anything. It does mean there are some annoying, subtle gesture changes, like not being able to click on dropdown menus while clicked onto an input.

This goes without saying, I haven't seen much in the way of new features for Scratch 4.0.

"What about Unsandboxed?"

We'll have to wait and see.

For the record, I am totally on board with migrating everything in Unsandboxed to 4.0 when the time comes, but that depends entirely on if TurboWarp migrates because we depend on it pretty heavily for our stuff to work.

But it's something I'm totally ok with doing, in fact I'm excited for it. I HATE working with old Blockly, but the ball is in Scratch's court, and then it's in TurboWarp's.



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