Haxe Roundup 641

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] HaxeIn 2022 September event has been announcement. ️
• C#: Attaching ZLIB header/trailer to DeflateStream article.
• A collection of HashLink examples.

Videos & Music

• “Nothing feels better than finishing a combo with Fancy Pants Man” short by Fraymakers.
• 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! v0.5 by Axol Studio is now LIVE!
• Cody Ward has finished their #lowrezjam entry - Press 2 Putt.
• Zzox (tyler)'s #lowrezjam entry - Grave.
• Shahar Marcus has released the first beta version of EZWorksheet. And is also planning to put up a web version of the app soon. If you find any issues/bugs, please report them in this GitHub repo.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Rogue Sun #lowrezjam entry by half.
• Usagi Corps by Naoya.
• GrindCraft - Haxe/OpenFL port of popular game. via gonzo.

In case you missed it

• Robert Alvarez has released Platform Countdown puzzle game on Poki.
• “Papers, Please” by Lucas Pope is now available on phones: Android and iOS. ️
• Tightrope Theatre releases on Steam and mobile devices today!

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Prexot has pushed a new pre-pre-alpha version of Rhythm RPG.
• PortilizenCreations has made Sushi Cats 2.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Brick walls by Oleg Doyla.
• Michael Bickel previews further Haxe and Godot integration progress.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Ian Harrigan is working on a “system-utils” library that will hopefully (eventually) have a bunch of native types to: open / save / select folder dialogs, notifications, clipboard, etc…

Via the Haxe Discord server

Git Repos

• feathersui-validators git - A port of the form validation classes from Apache Flex (formerly Adobe Flex) to Feathers UI for Haxe and OpenFL.
• gltftools git - Export Away3D models to GLTF/GLB format.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Techy Wrinkes shows that batched firing is working correctly now in their shmup game.
• WebGPU (wgpu-native) triangle by shakesoda.
• The first look at new platformer Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower by Ando.
• When you mess up your animation frames and now your Ninja runs as if his leg was asleep.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Saving screen from Patches Of Adventure by Rob Clemmons Jr.
• Jefvel shows tile depth sorting. using Heaps and LDtk and walking around.

Some Library Releases

• texter 2.2.0
• hxTwitch 0.5.0
• newgrounds 1.3.0
• HxShaders 5.0.0
• 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 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

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

• Odd regression in from structure issue.

In case you missed it

• Optimizer fails when using structural subtyping issue.
• [jvm] Generated .class files are invalid on windows fixed.

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.