Haxe Roundup 572

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

• Closed Hands Interview - Challenging Our Perception Of A “Video Game” article via PΔSSENGER.
• The pieces of the Pi Puzzle article by Patrick.
• HaxeFlixel Groups & Collisions article by Kino Rose.
• Recursive bisection with a twist article by Oleg Dolya.
• Database with Depot & Haxe black magic article by Kino Rose.
• HaxeFlixel Crash Course: Make a Pong Game in Under 1 Hour article by Andrej from Ohsat Games.
• Check out all of the Chapter 2 teases from Spellbreak’s upcoming The Fracture release, releasing on April 8th!

Videos & Music

• PΔSSENGER have released the soundtrack of CLOSED HANDS, available now on itch.io.
• Rogue of Vallas Level 1-1 Playthrough video by Merrak.
• Rogue of Vallas Devlog 14: World Building video by Merrak.
• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 4 by Questionable Programming.
• EP10. Adding a border / outline to a HaxeFlixel spite using a shader - Shader Course video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• You can now use Haxe to make a Godot gamev | HaxeGodot video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Check out Spellbreak’s Chapter 2: The Fracture trailer, coming to PC and consoles April 8th!
• 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 & Hong Kong.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Early demo of “Bad Soccer Manager” by Jano Games is available from itch.io.
• The Gluttons Purge is available to play now on Newgrounds by Mig Moog, made with HaxeFlixel.
• IriySofts latest HTML5 game made with OpenFL, Cycle Extreme, has been released onto Game Disribution.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Git Repos

• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• WIP Kino Rose dynamically loading Aseprite files and their animation tags in HaxeFlixel.
• The chairman’s cat in Jano Games football manager game, is causing all sorts of problems. Made in Stencyl.
• Andrej from Ohsat Games swears they are still properly working on Go! Go! PogoGirl…
• Some visual improvements by 1speed from their indie game.
• The Ever Given recreated in the Jitter sandbox by Syo using Heaps.
• Joel shows off the animation for picking up discs in their dungeon crawler made with Heaps.
• In a recent Realmkit stream, Daniel made it so the eraser & normal brushes toggled between the physical part of the tablet stylus, shared over on the Haxe Discord channel.
• Lore character cards from Renaine, NFT-less claimable cards for Mr. Bird Dad and Josephine Elizabeth Factoria!
• Meet The Striker from Double Turn who’s signature move is Leaping Knee Strike!

Some Library Releases

• vscode 1.55.0
• externs 0.5.5
• Haxentric 1.1.2
• sfhaxe 0.3.0
• hxasync 1.1.0
• genes 0.4.1
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• 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.
• 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 over enum proposal.
• 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

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

• Type param constraint regression issue.
• [js/draft] Tackle field inits in this-before-super situation pull request.
• Parametrized constraints choke on inheritance fixed.
• [hl] Values assigned inside of nested catch are discarded issue.
• Functions in macro parameters are not correctly processed fixed.