Haxe Roundup 568

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

• Haxe 4.2.1 has been released!
• Try the new try.haxe.org! Check out the source code on GitHub.
• Haxe: Using class reification in @:build macros article by Vadam.
• Haxe 4.2.0 – Module Level Fields Update article by Kino Rose.
• PogoGirl Devlog #13: The Tools of Pogo by Andrej.
• HaxeFlixel Breakout Tutorial. Part 2 - Balls and Walls by Andrej.
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.8.2: basic integration with Armoria by Oleg Dolya.
• Newgrounds is hosting the Friday Night Funkin’ Animation Jam!

  Many of you have likely noticed Friday Night Funkin’ is a huge hit, on its way to becoming the most popular game in the history of NG. To celebrate, we’re hosting a Friday Night Funkin’ Animation Jam, with a $5K prize pool from the Funkin’ team and over $1.4k from the community!

Videos & Music

• Check out the mobile preview of Northgard via Playdigious.
• Copy-paste + exciting news! video by RPG Playground.
• The Pawspector Launch stream by Axol Studio.
• An Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 0 video by Questionable Programming.
• DAGGONE TROUBLE MAKIN SLIME video from WIP OpenFL-based game by Will Blanton.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Job listings

• To reach their goal of helping to save one million lives every year by 2030, Laerdal is looking for a Software Platform Developer to join them in Copenhagen. Remote work is possible, but will require several days a week on site.
• Shiro Games are looking for an Engine/Graphics programmer.
• Shiro Games are still looking for people to join their team of passionate developers in Bordeaux to work on a new unannounced project.
• Bloognoo is looking for a Haxe developer to help them save live venues.
• The team behind Forge of Empires at InnoGames is looking for a Haxe developer, feel free to contact Dan Korostelev in case of any questions! More info can be found at the company’s website.
• BeeInventor Limited are hiring for a Haxe fullstack developer to join them in Taipei.

Bounties

• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Goldspace, a twin-stick shooter pixel game, packaged in space exploration has been released. Check out the release trailer. Made with Stencyl, via Luyren.
• “Spooksville, USA” is available to play FREE on Newgrounds with Medals by Axol Studio!

Code Examples

• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Collapsible labels are now in HaxeUI core as pure CSS, by Ian Harrigan.
• Custom syntax highlight in scintilla (haxeui-html5 & haxeui-hxwidgets) by Ian Harrigan.

Releases

• LDtk version 0.8.0 and 0.8.1 have been released.

  Level custom fields, resizable entities and more!

• Heaps 1.9.0 has been released.
• Lubos Lenco has released 2021.3 versions of iron, armory and zui.

Git Repos

• hx-terminal-colors git - For displaying colored console/terminal output with Haxe (i.e.chalk).
• Studio git - An integrated editor for building video games, software applications and more.
• android-orientation git - Haxe extension which allows you to set screen orientation on Android.
• Phidgets.hx git - Phidgets for the Haxe C++ target by ʇ0mmy.
• timetrack git is a command line time tracking tool.
• FlixelLightShader git is an alpha example of a simple lighting shader implemented in HaxeFlixel.
• psxcdmeta git - Read metadata from PlayStation 1 CD images.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Game editor written by JKB Games using HaxeUI targeting OpenFL.
• “Win a match, jump in the bath, simple” by Jano Games, which awards morale and a splash, made with Stencyl.
• Check out some random gameplay from Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej from Oshat Games.
• Techy Wrinkles has spent some time experimenting with Heaps & HashLink.
• “The Hordes are coming” a HaxeFlixel test by Questionable Programming.
• To celebrate their complete attack & animation overhaul, Renaine devs shares a new combo video!
• Check out Mine Blocks weekly last Friday Mine Blocks Beta update!
• Some UI elements from Jitter Sandbox by Syo.
• Pushing boxes and avoiding spikes from WIP game by Robert Alvarez.
• Torcado has added two more new cards. Both offensive this time.
• New screenshot of inventory and crafting UI from WIP Kha-based game. via Abstract_Panic.
• Beginning of a decompiler for custom language. Made by Senk Ju with HaxeUI (hxwidgets backend).
• Walking around and picking up items in WIP game by Nyrh from Haxe Discord server.
• Typing game, maybe rhythm-based-adjacent by MSGhero. Made using the firedancer library.
• New quick videos from WIP puzzle game by mauve:
  • Friendly reliable library guardians (enemy).
  • Little bit of effects go a long way.
  • lil’ devil animation.
  • And non-gameplay code todos.

Some Library Releases

• zenscriptbuilder 0.1.0
• graphql_lib 0.0.1
• redistHelper 0.4.8
• sfhaxe 0.1.1
• fonthx 0.0.3
• ldtk-haxe-api 0.8.1-rc.1
• ecso 1.0.0-alpha.3
• pony 1.4.3
• haxentric 1.1.1
• formatter 1.12.0
• externs 0.5.2
• heaps 1.9.0
• screeps-externs 0.0.4
• pancake 1.0.14
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• 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.
• Lubos & contributors are creating Armory, an open source 3D game engine in Blender.
• 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.
• Eric Bishton is creating the Haxe plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
• Will Blanton is creating HaxeFlixel tutorials.
• Matthew Wallace is creating Haxe By Example tutorials.
• August Late is creating unique 2D lighting tech.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• Add Null coalescing operator proposal.
• Add local static proposal.
• Allow enums to opt-out of publishing their constructors in the implicit global scope proposal.
• Add destructive assignments proposal.
• Add Matcher: setting variables and guard as expression in a pattern proposal.
• Add Single pattern check proposal.
• Add Shorthand nullable-type syntax proposal.
• Add support for on site getters & setters proposal.
• Add support for Self access for abstracts proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add support for default type parameters proposal.
• Add polymorphic this types proposal.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

16~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.

• Possible null safety hole with structs and/or monomorphs issue.
• Type inference vs call return types vs abstract casts issue.
• Unexpected behaviour when using #if with an unspecified define issue.
• Typedef unification issue.