Haxe Roundup 637

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] Announcing HaxeHybrid LAX 2022 by Osaka Red LLC.
  • The online portion of HaxeHybrid 2022 LAX will be via Google Meet. There will still be a Twitch separate broadcast and after it’s over, the talks will be uploaded to YouTube. via Osaka Red LLC.
• [events] HaxeJam 2022: Summer Jam! ️
• ⛏️Cave Generator article by Oleg Dolya.
• Motion Twin have shared the roadmap for Dead Cells. There’s plenty more cooking up for 2023 and beyond!
• Axol Studio are opening up their Discord Server!

Videos & Music

• Haxe Beginner’s Tutorial 9 - Function Arguments video by CRobes.
• My Orcane is looking kind of clean short video by Fraymakers.
• In Your Books - Trailer.
• 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

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Bring It On! v0.4 is out, with some minor bug & performance fixes, and a few minor features! Here is more info about it.
• In Your Books will be released on August 3rd!

From the Haxe Discord server

• Slameron has made a shooter game for gmtk jam with haxeflixel - Diced Up!.
• Tigga reminds that there are 2 weeks until the release of Blobble Wars 2 on Steam. The game is being made with Haxe and OpenFL.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• First acceptable floor raycast rendering by Gauthier B, which is a continuation of their’s work on Maze3D in 1023 bytes made for the js1024 competition. Source code is available on GitHub.
• zzox (tyler) has released the source code for “my favourite place”.

From the Haxe Discord server

• BSOD has started working on Midnight Lib.
• Shahar is working on computer vision library:
  • Implemented a couple of simple image drawing functions and spent some time on a way to draw images to the console.
  • Implemented a Hough transform.
  • Some other improvements.

Git Repos

• polymod 1.5.4 has been released.
• hxdist git - A program to package Haxe applications for distribution.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• New networking with hxbit client exclusive object replication by GlassySundew.
• Michael Bickel has gotten a WIP Haxe HXCPP built DLL loading and booting in Godot.
• Tyler tests out pathfinding using Kha and astar lib.
• Mine Blocks wiki has gotten some big improvements, fancy new crafting templates, block & item catalogue and much more!
• Techy Wrinkles has made a simple viewer made in Heaps for a Blender3D model. And they are going to try and export it to Godot!
• Any lurkers in chat? quick video from WIP platformer by MortMort.
• New GIFs and some info about SCRAPS OF LIGHT.
• SavanDev shares progress on level editor.
• JanoGames are starting work on a prototype - Footgolf.
• Fun with fire 🔥 in Renaine.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Isaac Denner shares progress on ‘jigsaw’-style structure generation system in Minicology.

Some Library Releases

• hxdist 0.1.2
• HxShaders 4.0.0
• extension-androidtools 1.2.0
• aeons 0.2.0
• bootstrap_bundle 1.4.0
• polymod 1.5.4
• haxe-injection 2.0.0
• raylib 1.0.0
• minecraft-api 0.1.0-alpha
• TelegramApi 1.0.1
• 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.

• Equality fails through Dynamic issue.
• [js] Binding Array<T>.push generates a T->Void instead of T->Int fixed.
• [jvm] Rest Array Comprehension cannot cast to class issue.