Haxe Roundup 685

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

• [events/upcoming] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for July 9th.
• Armory3D July 2023 release notes.
• Partnership Announcement: Iceberg Interactive to Publish Minicology.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, The Next Haxe Game Jam planned date poll results.
• 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

• Making a Gameboy Advance game I witnessed in a dream by SomeRanDev.
• Game Dev stream by Tim I Hely.
• 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

• None.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases

• Avoid the explosion minigame by Yutori.
• Dune: Spice Wars 30/06/2023 Patch Notes.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• FlxSprite Inspector Update: Color Matrix Filter, Demo, UI Enhancements, and Project Restructuring by George Harpwood.
• Damilare Akinlaja successfully decoded HashLink bytecode with Rust and is trying to compose and initialize the main module. ️

Via the Haxe Discord server

• New beta release of Haxe IntelliJ plugin by m0rkeulv.
• m0rkeulv is currently working on improving the docs rendering.
• George Harpwood has developed an Aseprite script that automates the generation of animation.add() lines of code for a loaded sprite, utilizing its tags.

Git Repos

• Haxeraria git - create Terraria mods using the Haxe programming language & reflaxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Stairway to Hell! - Floor heights are supported in WIP game by Gauthier Billot.
• CHOPPABLE GRASS in Into the Necrovale.
• Creating a clone of your past self by Robert Alvarez.
• Archipelago by Oleg Dolya.
• Less than 70 tasks left before Defender’s Quest 2 release.
• This week’s WIP GIF from SCRAPS OF LIGHT.
• The hardest animation for Fraymakers.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• “Wouldn’t be a casino without bumpers” video in Kid Bubblegum.
• Jérémy Fa is “still working on my light+mirror game and added an actual background that reacts to ambiant lighting, tweaked many things to make the display look nicer and cleaner in general”.
• ChargingTurnip decided to figure out how to 3d.
• Ddmills has added a “sleep” mechanic in Wild West Roguelike.
• FlxAnimate (partially) supports filters inside MovieClips on runtime.

Some Library Releases

• HaxeGJClient 2.5.0
• genes 0.4.8
• hxCodec 3.0.2
• 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

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

• Make break/continue exprs not-nullable merged.
• Revive hxb Haxe binary format draft pull request. ️