Haxe Roundup № 348

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

News from the Community

News and Articles

• Rediscovering MVC by Andreas Söderlund and the MVC author himself.
• Introducing Monthly Haxe Milestones (not releases) by Simon Krajewski.
• Kha Shmup Tutorial Part 1 by Justin Hamilton.
• Kha Shmup Tutorial Part 2 by Justin Hamilton.
• Journey of Coins by Justin C.
• HaxeFlixel Dialogue System by Bob.
• Tech stack of a point and click adventure game by Jaap Blom.
• StablexUI v2 planned luxe engine & kha backends by Alexander Kuzmenko.

Pictures and Demos

• Preview of Haxe’s next compile target by John S. Fontanelli.
• OpenFL wallpaper by The Good Idea Co.
• Try Chicks OpenFL prototype by Fiery Squirrel.
• Shaders in HaxePunk by Alexandre Bianchi.
• Random Tilemap & slight displacement shader in KhaPunk by Sidar Talei.
• Kha Archery Demo by Lubos Lenco.
• One year of HtA by Nico M.
• HXCPP debugging in Visual Studio Code by Jeff Ward.
• Multi-threaded HXCPP debugging in Visual Studio Code by Jeff Ward.

Some library releases

• Unit2 1.0.0-beta.1 by Nicolas Juneau.
• SParse-hx by Sean Whiteman.
• HaxeFlixel Console Autocompletion by the HaxeFlixel team.
• waud 0.1.1 by Adi Reddy Mora.
• swf 2.1.6 by the OpenFL team.
• openfl 3.5.2 by the OpenFL team.
• lime 2.8.1 by the OpenFL team.

Updates from the Haxe core

41 commits have been made to Haxe in the last week, with 70 commits closed across the Haxe ecosystem.

• HaxeLib support for Git dependencies in-discussion.
• HaxeLib recursively reads hxml files when doing haxelib install build.hxml.
• Don’t force dev version when calling haxelib path libname:version.

You can start using the latest features by grabbing a nightly build of Haxe.

Have a good week everyone!