Haxe Roundup 686

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 23rd.
• [events/upcoming] The next weeklong HaxeJam 2023: Summer Jam is scheduled to start on August 6th hosted by Logo. Remember to join the Discord event.
• ☠️Perilous Shores 1.6.0 article: archipelagoes, adding and removing towns by Oleg Dolya.
• Aseprite Animation Code Exporter for HaxeFlixel article by George Harpwood.
• New gamedev blog post in French about texture atlases by Ludovic Bas. Ludovic put some tests made with OpenFL in a big table with data of POT/NPOT textures, ATF compression texture + GZIP and with a slight comparison with Unity.
• 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

• Two short videos from Kid Bubblegum: Boat Ride & Weeeee!
• Sugar Coding Tips #1 DYNAMIC FUNCTIONS AND UPDATES.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Available for work

• You can hire Tim I Hely, a highly experienced HaxeFlixel developer!
• 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

• Dune Spice Wars Patch Notes for 07/07/2023.
• Decomposing mini-game by Yutori.
• Dark Clues by Oleg Dolya is an attempt to make a roguelike game in 7 days for 7DRL CHALLENGE. Here is some info about the games origins.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, sup0088 finished their first HaxeFlixel game for the gmtk game jam - Survive The Human!

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• Haxe IntelliJ Toolkit 1.4.5 has been released.
• Damilare Akinlaja is implementing the Hashlink bytecode interpreter byte by byte…

Via the Haxe Discord server

• You can download a preview build of LDtk 1.3.4 right now. Changelog via Sébastien Benard.
• Vadym Diachenko aka YellowAfterlife presented a cleaner-looking C# generator. ️

Git Repos

• spm git - A simple package manager for Linux.
• stx_lense git - Implementation of bidirectional tree transforms over the PML datastructure.
• geometrize-haxe-cli git - CLI version of the haxe package Geometrize Haxe based on the Geometrize Lib Example.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Cornell Daly “shows off how the basic crafting system will work” in their upcoming game made with Kha.
• Paradeus adds drag and drop animations to their WIP indie game.
• When you thought your 2d lighting finally worked as expected, but notice there is one single situation where it doesn’t by Jérémy Faivre.
• Defeating enemies and salvage the SCRAPS OF LIGHT, these can be used later to create new skills and upgrades.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Reesod implemented Bevel Filters in FlxAnimate! Here’s the filter in action.

Some Library Releases

• PickHaxe 0.3.0
• mc2it_theme 5.1.1
• dropecho.ai 1.0.0
• dropecho.testing 1.1.4
• dropecho.lib_example 0.10.0
• hxdiscord 0.5.1
• 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

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

• [jvm] Resources containing a dash are escaped fixed.
• Account for sub-types in ComplexTypeTools.toComplex() merged.
• Prepare for ocaml5 draft pull request.
• Callback arg type is transformed to Mono with overloads issue.