Haxe Roundup 704

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

• The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is schedule for Sunday March 10th at 18:30.
• Haxe 4.3.4 has been released!
• Greetings in 52 languages - 5 of Clubs Introducing Haxe article.
• The Funkin` Crew Week of 2024/02/23 - Charting a Course From Frustration to Delight article. Plus another lil funkblog post.
• IntelliJ IDEA Haxe Plugin version 1.4.44 has been released.

Devlogs

• Introducing: Heroes of Dune article.
• Introducing: House Vernius of Ix article.
• Minicology E-Corp Intergalactic Almanac: On The Importance of Weaponry article.
• Northgard patch notes for 22/02/2024 and 26/02/2024.
• Bring It On! patch notes for 0.14.9, 0.14.11, 0.14.13 and 0.14.15.

Videos & Music

• Revision to Idosra Level 1 with Dialog Sequence video.
• Armory3D: Working with Arrays Part 2.
• Armory3D: Conditions & Loops Part 1 and Part 2.
• 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.

Available for work

• You can hire Tim Hely, a highly experienced Haxe & HaxeFlixel developer, with 20+ years of experience!
• 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

• Game Jam release of The Longest Neck.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• Michael Bickel has forked and updated CastleDB editor.

Git Repos

• [openfl] Stop shadowing haxe.io.Bytes pull request and make ByteArray compatible with Haxe’s Bytes class pull request merged.
• haxe-github git - Haxe functions to use the GitHub API.
• mxhx-macro-resolver git - In a macro context, and using a document tree generated by mxhx-parser git, resolves the symbols that the XML tags, attributes, and text represent.
• mxhx-manifest git - Parses MXHX manifest files that map namespaced components to fully-qualified Haxe class names.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Training Modes in Fraymakers.
• The Watcher intro animation by Fraymakers.
• The latest GIFs from Renaine:
  • When you see a wonder beyond wonders and you can’t help but tween slide over to it.
  • Oh to be a spooky eyeball floating in a debug room.
  • Bullwhip Bones perception is so extraordinary that he can not see throught walls!
  • Somebody help him!

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Minicology updated boss with more vfx & dynamic animated eye video.

Some Library Releases

• blastween 1.0.0
• SScript 11.0.618
• hxdashboard 0.0.1
• hxWebP 0.3.0
• codegen 2.1.1
• wquery 1.1.2
• stdlib 3.1.2
• soundjs 1.0.1
• refactor 4.4.2
• jsprop 2.2.1
• jquery 1.5.4
• easeljs 3.0.2
• hxyarn 0.1.13
• electron 29.0.1
• 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

• Additional syntax for safe navigation discussion.
• Add support for Typed metadata proposal.
• Add support for Extension of Abstracts proposal.
• Add package alias proposal.
• Add Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• Add Caller Tracking 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

42~ updates have been made to Haxe since the last issue.

• This weeks latest discussion on Haxe’s coroutines.
• [jvm] Redundant ordinal check in enum equals fixed.
• The latest Async IO API progress update by Aidan.
• [message reporting] Update sub errors handling pull request.