Haxe Roundup 705

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

• [upcoming/event] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for the 14th April at 19:30.
• Step up your testing game with UI tests article with Haxeium.
• ☠️Perilous Shores 1.6.4: improved islands and peninsulas article.
• 🏰Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.10.2: alleys view article.
• Week of 2024/03/12: the funkblog with factorio references… article.
• Minicology E-Corp Intergalactic Almanac: Shape Your Own Planets article.
• Fraymakers EA Update v0.6.8 - Training Mode Overhaul, Replay Options, and Optimization article.
• OpenFL 9.3.3 and Lime 8.1.2 releases announcement post.
• Rivals and Allies Out Now for Northgard!
• Heros of Dune Out Now!

Devlogs

• Dune: Spice Wars 23/03/24 and 13/03/24 patch notes.
• Wartales 13/03/24 patch notes.
• Northgard 20/03/24, 19/03/24 patch notes, 11/03/24 hotfix and Rival and Allies 07/03/24 patch notes.

Videos & Music

• Undertale Purple Announcement Teaser.
• Friday Night Funkin’ Erect Mode Sampler by Funkin’ Crew.
• Dune: Spice Wars | House Vernius of Ix trailer.
• Armory3d Timer tutorial.
• Armory3d Functions 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

• Dune: Spice Wars HouseVernius of Ix available now!
• Northgard Steam Spring Sale has started!

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• None this week.

Git Repos

• Lime 8.1.2 has been released.
• OpenFL 9.3.3 has been released.
• Haxe-strings 7.0.4 has been released.
• NME 6.3.54 has been released.
• haxe-threading-example git - Haxe Threading examples.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• None this week.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• None this week.

Some Library Releases

• SScript 17.1.618
• nme-toolkit 6.3.4
• browserify-js 0.0.2
• haxe-strings 7.0.4
• neataptic-js 0.0.2
• proxsys 0.3.0
• flixel-ui 2.6.0
• stdlib 3.1.3
• easeljs 3.0.3
• datatools 2.0.1
• codegen 2.1.2
• omggif 0.9.0
• electron 29.1.4
• markdown-openfl-textfield 1.0.3
• amfio 1.0.2
• openfl 9.3.3
• lime 8.1.2
• haxeium 1.1.1
• hxAwsSdk 0.0.5
• awslambda-hl 0.0.3
• hxbun 0.0.2
• flixel-addons 3.2.2
• hxcpp-debug 1.2.4
• HaxeAL-Soft 1.1.0
• 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 Auto Closing proposal.
• Add additional mathematical constants and functions discussion.
• 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

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

• Iterable arg is not inlineable issue.
• Fix cast error if Std.string fails pull request.
• Getter + incrememnt haxe.Int64 variable compile error issue.
• [hxcs] Adding dotnet core support to hxcs pull request.
• [hl] Fixed hxbytes compare closed.
• Only write default Connection header to HTTP requests if needed merged.
• [hashlink] HL/C CArray code generation has unnecessary cast for known types fixed.
• Add -D fail-fast merged.
• [hl] Rework Null<Int/Float/Bool> comparison for spec/alloc merged.
• Reflect.hasField returns false on property getters on the JavaScript target issue.
• [server] Add define to see what modules trigger most invalidation draft pull request.
• [hashlink] Fix UI8 assign on Linux pull request.
• [macro] Remove CompilationServer.setModuleCheckPolicy pull request.
• [hashlink] Check for Vulkan or Metal request and don’t force OpenGL pull request.