Haxe Roundup 697

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

• OpenFL 9.3.2 and Lime 8.1.1 have been released.
• Cave Generator 2.1.0: assorted new features by Oleg Dolya.
• Axol Studio updated the Bring It On! website with a FAQ section.

Devlogs

• 💪 Ultra Fishbunjin 3000 OUT NOW!! + The Watcher Details - November 2023 Progress Update from Fraymakers.
• Go! Go! Pogogirl Is Coming to Mega Drive! article by Andrej Preradovic.
• Join the Northgard beta-test team for a new multiplayer system post.
• Kid Bubblegum Emergency Patch and Wall of Text.

Videos & Music

• Big Armory 3D update for November 2023 video.
• Make a Top Down player controller in Armory 3D video.
• Groupe chat networking in Armory 3D video.
• HxGodot & Steam Audio, Occlusion & Reflections #2 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.

Shorts

• Make moving platforms in Armory 3D short video.

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

• Animal Arena by Advent is now available on App Store and Google Play.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• SomeRanDev has launched Awesome Haxe Targets “a list of all unofficial Haxe compilation targets”.
• Michael Bickle previews further work on HxGodot with a complex test-scene using Haxe externs and proven Haxe libs.
• SomeRanDev has added a Haxe compliation button to Godot with their Haxe-GodotBindingsGenerator git library.
• New HaxeFlixel demo just dropped, showcasing new FlxAsepriteUtil helpers.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• PickHaxe, the Minecraft modding framework for Haxe, has been making a lot of progress in its tooling lately. Here’s a demonstration that goes from an empty workspace to a sample mod working in-game in less than 2 minutes. Find out more details about the version 0.4.0 release. ️

Git Repos

• [vshaxe] @:structInit hover does not have doc comments issue.
• hx-http-server git - Haxe HXCPP target httpserver.
• fuel-lang git - A port of the fuel language to the Haxe language.
• hxghub git - Haxe/HXCPP @:native bindings for Logitech GHUB SDK.
• centauri-game-engine git - The Centauri Game Engine uses BabylonHx as its rendering engine & adds pathfinding, artificial intelligence systems, entity component systems.
• haxe-shade git - A utility library to relocate packages in Haxe projects.
• haxix git - nix flake to build Haxe/heaps.io projects.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Advent is working on some new content for Animal Arena.
• Racing minigame idea by zzox (tyler).
• Before they play their roles for you, we learn to play airsoft together by Syo.
• New HaxeFlixel demo just dropped, showcasing new FlxAsepriteUtil helpers.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Short gameplay clip from Power Line Rider.
• ChargingTurnip is making Sweepminer - What if Minesweeper was a rogue-lite platformer?
• EyeDaleHim is working on FNaF Series Recreation.
• More sprite stacking shenanigans by WIll Blanton, plus adding a lod property that clones slices.

Some Library Releases

• hxyarn 0.1.12
• nwjs 1.4.1
• couchdb 0.2.0
• PickHaxe 0.4.1
• tink_macro 1.0.3
• flixel 5.5.0
• openfl 9.3.2
• lime 8.1.1
• typed-json 0.0.2
• macro-type-decoder 0.0.2
• SScript 7.7.0
• hxsdl 0.1.9
• godot-api-generator 1.2.1
• 3LLua 0.0.618-alpha
• torchsfunctions 0.3.1
• proxsys 0.1.1
• parasol 0.0.6
• flixel-demos 3.1.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.79
• docklix 0.1.0
• godot-extension-api-typings 1.0.2
• commUnit 0.1.0
• 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

74~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last two weeks.

• [jvm] Field annotations not exported correctly with RententionPolicy.RUNTIME issue.
• [jvm] Compiler failure when attempting to relocate haxe.root.Array issue.
• Contex.parseInlineString ignore extra code fixed.
• extern overload's cause enum identifier resolution to fail issue.
• [php] Wrong addbytes for BytesBuffer issue.
• RH switch with only null case causes stack overflow in the compiler fixed.
• Some preprocessor cleanup merged.
• Typedef vs @:generic fixed.
• Improve inline constructor handling of if, try and while expressions merged.
• [eval] Make Context.definedValue return Null<String> and document Context.resolvePath exception merged.
• Instance builder cleanup merged.
• Safe navigation is invalid for assigning variables issue.
• [hlc] HL/C compilation fails with Visual Studio when Haxe field is named restrict, _restrict, or __restrict issue.
• Respect imports on @:build merged.
• Don’t exception-wrap every macro API function pull request.
• [haxelib] Misleading instructions issue.
• [haxelib] SQL query leak issue.