Haxe Roundup 635

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

• [events] HaxeJam 2022: Summer Jam!
• The Next Chapter for Proletariat Inc by CEO Seth Sivak.
• Fireworks – DQ2 Progress Report for June 2022 by Lars Doucet.
• 🗝️One Page Dungeon Generator 1.2.3: custom notes and rear entrances article by Oleg Dolya.
• House Corrino is coming to Dune: Spice Wars!
• Heaps can easily compile to Android, iOS, HTML5, MAC, Windows announcement thread.
• New Dead Cells alpha is out - panchaku, rebalancing, legendary rework, pet the pet & more!
• OpenFL Defines, And Their Meanings article by Shahar Marcus from the Haxe Discord server. ️

Videos & Music

• Armory3D - Tilt shift effect by Alexander Kleemann.
• 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

• Axol Studio’s are looking for a social media manager & for someone to playtest & help balance the game difficulty.
• 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

• Dicey Dungeons Reunion DLC will be released, today, July 7th. Check out the Dicey Dungeons Reunion & The Reunion Reunion articles.
• “My favourite place” by zzox (tyler) is out now on itch and Newgrounds.
• 🔥 SSSPICY! 🔥 by torcado. Made for kajam 2022.
• Talk To Strangers developed by Post Mortem Pixels is ported from Stencyl to Nintendo Switch and will be available soon on Nintendo eShop.
• Skyfire2008 uploaded the latest build of TD2S with lots of new sounds and bug fixes.

In case you missed it

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Hollow river shapes by Oleg Doyla.

Git Repos

• hscript 2.5.0 has been released!
• logisim-assembler git - Assembler designed to work in conjunction with my microcode compiler.
• ʇ0mmy has released HL_WMF_Video git which adds VideoTexture Integration for Heaps / HL using Windows Media Foundation. ️
• multi-window git - HaxeFlixel Multi-Window POC.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• The final generative art piece being exhibited by Jérémy Fa, made with ceramic.
• Hopefully this will work like I intend it to by Rob Clemmons Jr.
• Screens from 3-1 levels of WIP Hitter game by Naoya.
• Quick video of a work in progress level by MortMort. Plus a bit of art, level design, programming & who knows maybe music too for a generic mobile platformer.
• Couple of quick videos from Purradox by SRDude:
  • I like when the menu loops, it just sends itself around the world instead hopping the shortest distance back.
  • Day 49. File select screen. Tastier than ramen cooked in dr. pepper.

Some Library Releases

• pony 1.8.8
• aeons 0.1.1
• HxShaders 3.2.0
• hscript 2.5.0
• hsluv 0.1.0
• hxhttp 0.0.5
• 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 Traits proposal.
• 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.

• Add JVM annotations within annotations pull request.
• Abstract classes and interface issue.
• Monomorph type applied when doing ?? return issue.
• [jvm] JvmCode.EmptyStack when using explicit return inside an arrow function stored in a field issue.
• Inline constructor fails when some function returns this issue.
• Add BigInteger type pull request, with this implementation being 5x faster than others and 3x faster than native Java. ️

In case you missed it

• 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.

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.