Not gonna be updated?! Is it a 'dead' language then, or are we waiting for BlitzMax to introduce new techs?
It isn't dead. If you write something with it, and compile it, it still works ;)Well, it's strange that some people bought a DX7 engine / programming language, and they expect it to be updated to DX8, DX9, etc. Some small game development studios work in a very different way: they first think about the game they want to make, then search for an appropiate engine (looking for its current features, instead of hoping that some of the thing it lacks will be added in a future update), buy it and stand with the version they bought, withut updating it (to ensure that nothing crashes with the update). This happens with some studios which use the Torque Engine. They got a stable version of the engine source code, and extend it themselves. That's what I am doing with the Cipher engine.
In Blitz, you cannot extend the source code to add new things, but in its current state, it's perfect to make shareware games. You don't have shaders in it, but a stable engine perfectly capable of creating a sell-able game, like it has been proven with dozens of published shareware titles :)