Haxe Roundup 711

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

• [ongoing/events] The next HaxeJam 2024: Summer Jam has started and runs till June 15th!
• Tenjutsu Announcement by Sébastien Benard! ️
• 🏡Village Generator 1.6.1: palisades in JSON and small visual improvements article by Oleg Dolya.
• Wartales Community Update 3 Out Now!

Devlogs

• Northgard patch notes for 06/06/2024, 31/05/2024 and 30/05/2024. Plus the road map update.
• Wartales patch notes for 07/06/2024.
• Fraymakers update 0.6.11 - Stratostar Hazards, Replay Auto Save & Beta Upgrade Branch!

Videos & Music

• Northgard Clan of the Hounds Release Trailer.
• Haxe Game Jam Join Speech.
• Haxe Roundup Roundup Archive Episode 3.
• The latest Asteroids Armory3D series video updates:
  • Player Border
  • Player Movement
  • Add Rocks
  • Asteroids
  • Rocks and Bullet Collision
  • Bullet Destroy
• 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.

Job listings

• Clockwork Acorn is looking for an experienced Haxe developer to port their game Jetstream to iOS and Android.

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

• Friday Night Funkin “Pit Stop” Update, with 2 new songs and UI revamps!
• Northgard Clan of the Hounds is Available Now.
• Renaine is a cute n’ colorful game featuring weird characters, smooth as butter combat, amazing music and Chompy petting! Check out the new trailer.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Wardanza first public game, Star Dust is available on itch.io.
• 4 Player Games maintained by Vortelio has exceeded 5 million installs!

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• The latest Friday Night Funkin’ update is open source, and the latest content update included over 20 community contributions!

Git Repos

• haxe-csv git - A CSV browser in Haxe.
• hxflash git - WIP Library to parse and render data from XFL/FLA files.
• hxbson git - BSON implementation for Haxe.
• haxe-instrument 1.2.0 has been released!
• haxe-checkstyle 2.9.0 has been released!
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• The latest Renaine GIFs:
  • Tweaked the reverse turnaround attack to be a lil snappier.
  • Makin’ it easier to add condition dialogue, check it outt.
  • Chao Garden?

Via the Haxe Discord server

• [ai] Check out the song Haxe, A Metal Tribute by dazKind created with AI.
• Powerline Rider main menu updated with controls scrolling by on the billboards.

Some Library Releases

• peote-view 1.0.2
• littleBigInt 0.1.8
• hxvlc 1.6.1
• ludi-commons 0.0.2
• heaps-coroutine 0.0.1
• heaps-simplegui 0.0.1
• checkstyle 2.9.0
• macro-aux 0.1.0
• HaxeGJClient 6.0.0
• flxsvg 1.0.1
• dropecho.testing 1.1.5
• esocklib 0.0.1
• instrument 1.2.0
• heaps-feathers-icons 0.0.1
• heaps-svg-lite 0.0.1
• 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

• Cast Specification changes for Haxe 5 discussion.
• 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

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

• [macro] Can’t use mixed arrays with macros issue.
• [macro] Compiler.exclude() doesn’t work for module-level fields issue.
• [hlc] Weird compiler error issue.
• For loop is not removed if variable is used issue.
• Do not store warnings as cache bound objects during display requests issue.
• Compiler failure tUnification unknown position fixed.
• Expose TVar VStatic flag in macros merged.
• Use structural equality in generic_substitute_type pull request.