Haxe Roundup 634

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

• Spellbreak is shutting down early next year. The parent company, Proletariat had been acquired by Blizzard Entertainment to beef up the staff on World of Warcraft.
• A Shroomy Crossover article from Renaine.
• Dead Cells - Breaking Barriers update (Accessibility options & Assist Mode) vlog and patch notes. Available on PC & consoles now!
• The Changes Update v0.3 for Bring It On! by Axol Studio.
• [events] Osaka Red LLC has added a separate “free” tickets options for HaxeHybrid 2022 LAX.

Videos & Music

• Jérémy Fa shared a video of actual setup of the installation from previous issue.
• Squuuidly continues streaming development of Renaine.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Andreas Drewke is looking for a freelancer job or part time job.

Job listings

• Hacksaw Studios are looking for a Haxe developer to join their team working on the core framework. EU candidates preferred & position is remote friendly.
• 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

• The latest bounty from Rob Clemmons, a Better Inventory System for $520 Bounty.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• A new update for [Speer DX] is now live! via Ando.

In case you missed it

• Bring It On! v0.2.3 is now LIVE! on Steam and Itch.io. This update should improve some of the performance issues with the game.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Jefvel has released a game for Pico Day on Newgrounds, made with Heaps! - The 1000.
• Minicology has a demo available for Steam next fest. via Idenner.
• Prexot has released the first public-ish version of Spine Ceramic character creator.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

From the Haxe Discord server

• A Crazy Town has made pong in one line in like 40 minutes and it was painful.
• Semmi created a new sample that shows how to use Blender to create an UV-map and using this for 2D-dissortion via peote-view git fragment shader. Check it out in action.

Git Repos

• VSHaxe 2.24.0 changelog.
• zyheaps git - This is a simplified API based on the Heaps engine. The purpose is to make it have the out of the box ability of available Android/iOS/Mac/Windows/Html5/ games and other platforms.
• ceramic 0.14.2 has been released! Jérémy Fa has also added new samples on the Ceramic website:
  • A minimal example on how to create tilemaps from code.
  • How to use auto-tiling.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Heaps keeps surprising Techy Wrinkles!
• Grass and start title menu buttons from WIP Purradox game by SRDude.
• In your books just made the first Steam build for testers. The release date was also update to… this summer!
• Friday Night Funkin’ now has stereo sound!

From the Haxe Discord server

• 47rooks has finally got all the pieces to go together. HaxeFlixel, HaxeUI, Formula.
• ShaharMS has started a project to make a positionally dynamic TextField that supports dragging, resizing and rotating. Now it is fully resizable and draggable.

Some Library Releases

• genes 0.4.4
• pony 1.8.6
• flxanimate 2.0.0
• colyseus-websocket 1.0.11
• SScript 0.0.1
• HxShaders 3.1.0
• 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 Constructor this.arg syntax proposal.
• 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

20~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last week.

• Avoid creating instance method closures with .bind merged.
• Retyping mechanism merged.
• Add a way to skip a @:from cast for consideration by top down inference issue.

In case you missed it

• EitherType + ReadOnlyArray regression issue.
• Abstract classes and interfaces result in a compiler failure on the CPP target issue.
• Classes that derive from abstract classes don’t pass expected type equality checks on some targets issue.
• [jvm] Using generic functions 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.