Haxe Roundup 619

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 4.2.5 has been officially released!
• Wherever there may be profit, there will be smugglers, just waiting to play their cards right in Dune: Spice Wars.
• Quick Snow Effect in HaxeFlixel.

Videos & Music

• Uroboros - Fraymakers Original Soundtrack.
• Rogue of Vallas Area 1 Level 2 Comparison by Merrak.
• Free extra tileset for your RPG! indie devlog by RPG Playground.
• Story Creator - Episode 1 - Setup File Management by StoryDev.
• Story Creator - Episode 2 - Our Seamless Convo Finder by StoryDev.
• Story Creator - Episode 3 - Designing the Script Editor by StoryDev.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Rudy Geslin is looking for full-time remote work.
• Peter Achberger is available for freelance work.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a freelancer job or part time job.

Job listings

• Shiro Games are looking for a talented marketing director to join them!
• ScottPlusPlus is looking to hire a Haxe developer, ideally with web experience, to help with consultation and code-reviews for a couple hours per week.
• ZAVOD Games (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Senior Haxe developer to work on Taonga: the Island Farm.
• Frontend Game Developer job offer in Moscow, Russia.
• AS3 to JavaScript (React) via Haxe job offers.
• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.
• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on Hero Wars.
• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on the web-version of their project Throne Rush.
• Shiro Games are looking for a Senior Game Programmer.
• 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. ️

Bounties

• The team at SoccerTutor are offering a bounty to get this [cpp] issue 8400 fixed.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Hold My Beer, the big free content update for Nuclear Blaze by Sébastien Bénard is now officially available on Steam!

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Draft mode in Dice Tribes: Ambitions is now live.
• Interstice Academy: Love is Blind by Nick.
• Ruby Heart Matchmakers by Prexot / goldenPiGames.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• HaxeFlixel game starter template powered by Lix and Node.js by Richard Oliver Bray.

Git Repos

• svg-component-editor git - SVG editor for components.
• scopes git - Scoped exit expressions and autoclose variables.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Mood rn by Squidly.
• “Harag’s Marshlands may not look particularly welcoming, but trust us, it is the perfect place to hang with your friends…” in Wartales.
• Standing at the top by Naoya.
• Super Cosmic Heist - Mecha Malice Boss Updates by Fierce.
• Update of the bookshop from In your books.
• A peek at [Speer DX] - the new and improved version of puzzle-platformer [Speer] by Andrej.
• New screenshots from Addlemoth by mauve:
  • Finished cleaning up the hellhound sprites.
  • Water added, fixed the wall sides + ceiling.

From the Haxe Discord server

• HEY my fire-effect works! by Timothy Ian Hely.
• Ninja_muffin been toying around with raycasting in the Flixel demo.
• 1337’s implementation of raytracing in Haxe from “Ray Tracing in One Weekend” by Peter Shirley.
• Extreme Engine video preview by Kacper.
• Looks like Sébastien Bénard is working on Linux version of Nuclear Blaze.
• Naoya’s experiment + chromatic aberration.

Some Library Releases

• flxanimate 1.0.1
• redistHelper 0.6.0
• extype 3.1.3
• mc2it_theme 1.7.6
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• 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.
• 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.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• 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

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

• Safe navigation runtime error issue.
• [eval] Compiler crash on .substr with an invalid string issue.
• [jvm] Generated bytecode Implements an interface twice fixed.
• [jvm] Allow option to produce .class files without zipping them into a jar added to nightly.

In case you missed it

• Regex Unicode sequences break completion issue.
• [js] ESM import syntax support issue.
• [lua] Minimal implementation of ssl merged.
• [jvm] Allow option to produce .class files without zipping them into a jar feature request.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe and see the impact the latest changes have on each target by browsing the benchmarks site.

Take it easy everyone, stay safe and see you next week.