Haxe Roundup 681

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

News and Articles

• Feathers UI v1.2 — Big performance boosts!
• Armory3D Release: v2023.06 via RPaladin.
• 🏡Village Generator 1.5.0: non-square maps and isolated villages article by Oleg Dolya.
• [devlog] Minicology Furnace & Fuel rework, automation bugfixes post.
• From Dead Cells to reinventing retro IP: The untold story of Evil Empire:
  • Dead Cells has officially sold over ten millions copies.
  • The team has a roadmap of content that gets the title to at least the end of 2024
• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon.
• Haxe.Social is a new unofficial Akkoma instance for Haxe developers and projects.

Videos & Music

• Wolfenstein 3D Raycaster In Haxe (Pseudo 3D) video.
• Reminder that Squidly does a Haxe dev stream every weekday on Twitch. 6pm EST -> 12am EST Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday. 12pm EST -> 6pm EST Thursday/Friday.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• Backend Haxe devs wanted to make PVP deltarune fangame listing.
• Ysbryd Games is looking for HaxePunk porters for a potential future title.
• Sean James McKenzie of Armor Games Studios is looking for a team experienced in porting Haxe games to console.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases

• Talk to Strangers will be released on the Nintendo Switch today! Made with Stencyl.
• Pixel Pajama Studios have re-released Astral Defense completely free with no ads. Made with Stencyl.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• CUBIC DRIFTER by MichaelTheBirthdayRatz.
• stickFlixel by Dusky.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• Dojo of Death by George Harpwood is complete and soon will be open sourced.
• More bugfixes and better handling of types returned by macros in latest IntelliJ Haxe plugin beta release.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Reflaxe/C++ updates for restricted hardware like the Gameboy Advance.

Git Repos

• PHP Index 1.1.0 has been released.
• Feathers UI v1.2.0 for Haxe and OpenFL have been released.
• HaxeGradle git - A HaxeLib tool that helps you use Gradle with Haxe.
• recs git - RES Entity Component System.
• YSON git - YSON = YvesScriptObjectNotation.
• hxlitehtml git - Haxe/hxcpp @:native bindings for litehtml.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Important update from Renaine: CRAB and Kraken Smacken! 🦑
• FNF in-game audio visualization IS REAL.
• Some visual evolution of Tenjutsu by Sébastien Benard.
• Juriën Meerlo has added smaller walls that are only out when gravity pulls them down.
• The venom wall issues in Starfox remake by SnkyGames had been solved.
• Couple of quick videos from a WIP game by indigoUan:
  • I love my “job”.
  • eheheehehheh…
• Some dev updates from Kid Bubblegum:
  • Pressing jump at the right time when bouncing off a bubble will lead to a perfect bounce.
  • HUD.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Prexot fixed depth related issue in Rhythm Magus.
• EyeDaleHim is making Chess AI game.

Some Library Releases

• parasol 0.0.5
• mc2it_theme 5.0.0
• genes 0.4.7
• feathersui 1.2.0
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Axol Studio is a small independent game development studio, making games with and contributing to HaxeFlixel.
• Funkin’ Crew is making Friday Night Funkin’, a cartoon rhythm gaming excellence.
• Patrick is creating Raspberry Pi 4 support for Haxe/Lime/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel.
• Josh Tynjala is working on Feathers UI — open source, cross-platform UI components built with OpenFL.
• Pavel Alexandrov is primarily contributing to the Heaps engine and is the creator of format-tiled library.
• Ian Harrigan is working on primarily HaxeUI, as well as hxArduino & hxWebSockets.
• Kaelan Evans is working on HxDoom, a Haxe adaption of Doom.
• Richard Oliver Bray is teaching people the things he’s learnt, like React, Typescript and Haxe.
• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
• Kevin Leung is creating open source software libraries.
• Robert Konrad, the Kha author, is creating Programming Toolkits.
• OpenFL is creating free open source software.
• HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
• HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross platform 2D game engine.
• Slava Ra is creating improvements for FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop.
• Mark Knol is working on Haxe and its documentation.
• Dan Korostelev is working on the Haxe compiler.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add support for Typed metadata proposal.
• Add support for Extension of Abstracts proposal.
• Add Shading proposal with alt macro solution.
• Add package alias proposal.
• Add Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• Add Caller Tracking proposal.
• Add Traits proposal.
• Add Constructor this.arg syntax proposal.
• Add new syntax for getters & setters inspired by the C# property syntax proposal.
• Add a type for meaningless values (similar to unit type) proposal.
• Add better Overload Support proposal.
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification.
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

9~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last week.

• Exception.stack is missing the throwing line in Haxe 4.3.x issue.
• [js] Runtime error when covering branches on safe navigation operator issue.
• [flash] Bitwise compound assignment inside of a Map switch statement causes Unbound variable and Compiler failure issue.