Haxe Roundup 627

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

• Is there something like enumerate in python target?
• Dino Cross Was an Easy Build article by E. Zachary Knight.
• Dead Cells accessibility update moves into beta.
• Animations Editor made by Pavel Alexandrov with Heaps and ImGui.

Videos & Music

• Bring It On! Early Access Trailer by Axol Studio.
• 2022 Projects - Create new world video by Zanzlanz.
• Adding invasions to Minicology - Mini-devlog by Minicology.
• [Speer DX] | Official Trailer. The game will be released on 3rd of June!
• An Interview with the Creator of RPG Playground.
• 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.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a freelancer job or part time job.

Job listings

• Saga Education, “a leading provider of in-person and online tutoring products, currently has multiple openings for Software Engineers”, Software Engineer III, Staff Software Engineer, plus two other technical positions.
• 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.
• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.
• Shiro Games are looking for a Senior Game Programmer.

Bounties

• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• “The realm is under siege” in Bring It On!, the single player auto attacking monster hell shoot-em-up survival game by Axol Studio, available from itch.io and made with HaxeFlixel.
• Kirill released another Speebot update with Steam Achievements and Russian localization.
• Dice Tribe Ambition Steam Store page is live!

In case you missed it

• Northgard: Sword & Solace free major update announcement.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Skyfire2008 has uploaded the latest version of TD2S to itch.io.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• HaxeFlixel 5.0.0 is coming along nicely by George.

From the Haxe Discord server

• haxeburner git - Tools for writing Bitburner scripts in Haxe, plus an example repo by Rin.

Git Repos

• stx_query git - Typedefs for query language.
• HaxeCV git - OpenCV externs and wrappers for Haxe.
• Kha Tools for:
  • arm
  • arm64
  • freebsd
  • linux
  • windows
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Maybe Naoya announced the release date for Hitter?
• Day 14 time travel animation by SRDude
• PolyProxy’s OpenGL render in Haxe now supports textures!
• “Another extravagant new animation joins the mix for your favourite undercover cephalopod 🐙” by Fraymakers.
• Hoodie’s preview of an in-progress unannounced game made with Stencyl.
• “Rainy evening with a street lamp, perfect weather for adventuring!” preview by Merrak.
• Phantom Path by Kirill Poletaev has been Steam Deck Verified.
• “Unearthed from the 1994 Consumer Electronics Show” quick video from Fierce.
• GIFs from new WIP game by Robert Alvarez:
  • Pushing blocks to stop lava that moves each step.
  • Pushing back the lava.
• Squidly has shared couple of bossfight quick videos from Renaine:
  • You ever bore witness to a being so powerful that their mere presence is a hitbox.
  • Too many clones + clones attack each other + clones don’t leave after attacking = whatever this is.
• Mauve has worked on stone golems for Addlemoth:
  • Added some dust clouds on landing.
  • Putting it all together.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Rob Clemmons Jr. has shared some results…
• Eris has spent the day working on this little UI. ️
• ShaharMS is implementing darkmode for a school worksheet project and has also shared a screenshot showing the start of a great webpage.
• ZwodahS is working on a new compendium/help screen.

Some Library Releases

• hxArchipelago 0.6.0
• extype 3.1.4
• hgsl 0.1.4
• haxe-files 4.0.0
• texter 2.1.0
• 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.
• 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

• 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

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

• haxe.Int64 typing error issue.

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.