Scratch 3.0 was released on 1/2/2019, Scratch 2.0 was released on 5/9/2013, and Scratch 1.0 was released on 1/24/2007.

Using these three important four letter numbers (2019, 2013, 2007) we can calculate the Scratch 4.0 release date.

–CHAPTER 1: MONTH–

The current version of Scratch is 3.0, being released in 2019. The difference is Scratch 3.0 was released in January and 2.0 in May.

Therefore, for the month:

month = January + May (or 1 + 5) = 6 (aka June)

Remember the part about Scratch 1.0? Scratch 1.0 was also released on a January, therefore 1 + 5 + 1 = 7.

In summary,

month = 2 x January + May (or 2 + 5) = 7 (aka July)

MONTH SOLVED!

–CHAPTER 2: DAY–

This is pretty simple, you don't need a explanation.

5 + 9 + 24 = 38

However, months CAN NOT have more than 30 or 31 days. Therefore, subtracting would be a good option.

We will subtract by 9 because it is the highest 1 digit number.

38 - 9 = 29

DAY SOLVED!

–FINAL CHAPTER: YEAR–

The year will be different, we will use subtraction and subtract the years, then adding 4000.

2019 - 2013 - 2017 = -2011

It is time to add by 4000.

2011

Wait a minute, 2011 is before 2023 (this year)

So we need to add extra digits.

2 + 11 = 13

11 + 13 = 24

2024

–CONCLUSION–

My theory is that Scratch 4.0 will be released on 7/29/2024. You're welcome

There's practically no rhyme or reason to this math, and most of it seems arbitrary

Here's what I did:

- calculate the days between 1/24/2007 and 5/9/2013 (used this): ~2297
- calculate the days between 5/9/2013 and 1/2/2019 (used this again): ~2064
- found the average of these days: ~2180.5
- found the date after 2180 days after 1/2/2019 (used this): Saturday, December 21, 2024

This is obviously an approximation. Scratch might take less or more time to release the new version, if they even need one

ajskateboarder wrote:

There's practically no rhyme or reason to this math, and most of it seems arbitrary

Here's what I did:

- calculate the days between 1/24/2007 and 5/9/2013 (used this): ~2297
- calculate the days between 5/9/2013 and 1/2/2019 (used this again): ~2064
- found the average of these days: ~2180.5
- found the date after 2180 days (used this): Saturday, December 21, 2024

This is obviously an approximation. Scratch might take less or more time to release the new version, if they even need one

I would guess that it's not going to be for a while. Scratch 2 was made so it could run in a web browser, and scratch 3 was made to support mobile devices and because flash is bad*.
Scratch 3 is written in HTML5, which isn't going away anytime soon. AFAIK it also doesn't have any technical limitations, and is still being actively developed (see: scratch lab), so scratch 4 probably won't even start development for a long time.

* Scratch 3 development started a year before Adobe announced that flash would be deprecated, but at that point HTML5 had been around for a while and was an obviously better choice.

Scratch 4.0 might modernize the language and optimize stuff like project size, memory usage, etc. 75% chance that it might add user created extensions too.

sf97ahgf wrote:

Scratch 4.0 might modernize the language and optimize stuff like project size, memory usage, etc. 75% chance that it might add user created extensions too.

I really hope that would happen, although it would most likely be dubbed 3.1 since it's not a rewrite of the language like all other major versions of Scratch

sf97ahgf wrote:

Scratch 4.0 might modernize the language and optimize stuff like project size, memory usage, etc. 75% chance that it might add user created extensions too.

That might actually already be coming, if you turn off your extensions and right click on a variable block, it actually lets you switch between variables in vanilla Scratch now!

INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:

sf97ahgf wrote:

Scratch 4.0 might modernize the language and optimize stuff like project size, memory usage, etc. 75% chance that it might add user created extensions too.

That might actually already be coming, if you turn off your extensions and right click on a variable block, it actually lets you switch between variables in vanilla Scratch now!

wait what??

You might benefit from actually learning probability and starting with the year instead of doing the year, month and day all at once.
We cannot really know for sure but we can estimate a probable year.

EngineerRunner wrote:

INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:

sf97ahgf wrote:

Scratch 4.0 might modernize the language and optimize stuff like project size, memory usage, etc. 75% chance that it might add user created extensions too.

That might actually already be coming, if you turn off your extensions and right click on a variable block, it actually lets you switch between variables in vanilla Scratch now!

wait what??

Yes, I don't use extensions and that happens for me.

Perhaps you should mention that the date is just an estimation and will likely not be very accurate?

Any patterns you find in the release dates are arbitrary. Scratch 4 probably won't release for a while.

mybearworld wrote:

Any patterns you find in the release dates are arbitrary. Scratch 4 probably won't release for a while.

Scratch labs was released.

ScratchcatandGobo wrote:

mybearworld wrote:

Any patterns you find in the release dates are arbitrary. Scratch 4 probably won't release for a while.

Scratch labs was released.

Thats not scratch 4 though, its just better scratch 3

They're probably going to release the scratch lab stuff in 2024 and hopefully make new experimental things

This is one of the more… creative ways of finding the 4.0 “release date”.
4.0 wont come out for a long long time.

ajskateboarder wrote:

(#5)

sf97ahgf wrote:

Scratch 4.0 might modernize the language and optimize stuff like project size, memory usage, etc. 75% chance that it might add user created extensions too.

I really hope that would happen, although it would most likely be dubbed 3.1 since it's not a rewrite of the language like all other major versions of Scratch

+1

EngineerRunner wrote:

INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:

sf97ahgf wrote:

Scratch 4.0 might modernize the language and optimize stuff like project size, memory usage, etc. 75% chance that it might add user created extensions too.

That might actually already be coming, if you turn off your extensions and right click on a variable block, it actually lets you switch between variables in vanilla Scratch now!

wait what??

Yea, that switching feature has existed since 1.x. They got rid of it for blocks other than variables and lists in 3.0 though, you could do it for operators before:

i need scratch 4.0 now!

A release date just happens it isn't planned for many years, it just happens based on the estimated final date and current workload of the Scratch employees.

yuniel_the_master wrote:

i need scratch 4.0 now!

Too bad, it's not coming (it's not even in development yet)


The release dates are completely coincidental, and there is no intentional correlation between them. In other words, the fact that it's been 6 years between every major version of Scratch means nothing,

Topic closed to prevent necroposting.