Haxe Roundup 639

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

• HaxeJam 2022 Summer Jam results. ️
• The video of the whole HaxeHybrid 2022 event is available to watch. ️
• Armory3D Release Notes for 2022.08 August Release.
• Dune: Spice Wars Community Update #2 Out Now!
• Dead Cells ‘Enter the Panchaku’ update is live!

Videos & Music

• Water Facility Sound Test for Rogue of Vallas by Merrak.
• 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

• “In your books” is being released today, available from Steam.
• Duke Dashington Remastered by Advent is now live on Poki!
• Blobble Wars 2 is out on Steam. Written in Haxe using OpenFL.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Preview of outlined roads by Oleg Dolya.
• Michael Bickel is slowly grinding away on integrating Haxe with Godot.

Git Repos

• Hashlink bytecode disassembler and decompiler hlbc git written in Rust.
• polymod 1.6.0 has been released.
• Heap-Scene-Transitions git - Haxe + Heaps screen transitions.
• haxeium git - An automated UI testing framework. ️
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Sync and more sync from WIP RPG game by GlassySundew.
• New videos from Renaine:
  • Hit em’ with that ↗ ⬆ ⬇
  • 🧻🚫 ⚔ (roll cancels)
• New GIFs from WIP mobile game by MortMort:
  • Done most of functions for the desert environment.
  • Some early World two level stuff.
  • Super Cool Platform & Mole in a hole!
  • Door Mole?
  • How to box.
  • Riding Balls.

From the Haxe Discord server

• BSOD has made a small Haxe mascot for fun… 😅
• New screenshot from Patches Of Adventure by Rob Clemmons Jr.
• Editor video by Shahar.

Some Library Releases

• hxminetest 0.0.1
• electron 20.0.0
• pony 1.9.0
• extension-androidtools 1.4.0
• polymod 1.6.0
• SScript 0.0.2
• 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

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

• [hxcpp] Support type parameters on extern classes merged.
• Allow for .custom.hx in module resolution feature request.