Haxe Roundup 649

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

hxRay devlog #2: Binding Switch by ThePercentageGuy.
Armory3D Release Notes - October 2022.10.
Rebalancing – DQ2 Progress Report for September 2022 by Lars Doucet.
Terranion and research tracker updates for Terrasavr by YellowAfterLife.
Ando made Chibi Ninja Shino-kun Devlog #2 public.
Cathay Capital reportedly pours €50m into Shiro Games.
Dune: Spice Wars has been nominated for ‘Best Early Access Launch’ at this years Golden Joystick Awards.
Wartales Major Update 2: The Great Gosenberg.

There’s something for everyone in this short for Bring It On! by Axol Studios.
Missing cool math games, check out Axol Studio games!
Looking for a Halloween game, try Heck House by Axol Studio.
Wartales | The Great Gosenberg release trailer by Shiro Games.
Via the Haxe Discord server, Basically A Walking Simulator (B.A.W.S.): DEMO OUT! video by Spookin’_64.

Fire Falcom are actively looking for Gaming Platform Programmers.
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”, Staff Software Engineer, plus one other technical positions.
Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.
Shiro Games are looking for a Senior Game Programmer.

In case you missed it.

A small one by Oleg Dolya.
Michael Bickel has covered the interop of all Godot engine built-in types with Haxe types with the help of some macros, abstracts, operator overloading and some type-safety + error reporting with callstacks. ️

pixelimage git is a little library by Nanjizal for pixel drawing currently only in JavaScript target.
HaxePong git - A not-so-classic clone of Pong made in Heaps, Haxe.
Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Big lizard momma by Gourami for Renaine.
NPC design in Addlemoth by mauve.
“Shadows tiles” in Rogue of Vallas.
New quick videos from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun:
- Giant spinning balls? No problem for a true ninja.
- A place called Demon Tower. was bound to have spikes Let’s be real here.
- Did you think a place called Demon Tower wouldn’t have any demons in it? Don’t be silly.

47rooks been playing with lower level GLSL access via OpenFL.
Minecart trains with mounted cannons/chests/whatever structures you want to put in them in Minicology.

Axol Studio is a small independent game development studio, making games with and contributing to HaxeFlixel.
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.

Add Caller Tracking proposal.
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.

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

[lua] Improve codegen for handling instance Var functions pull request.
[hxcpp] Wrong result for true == 1 comparison when variables typed as Dynamic or Any issue.
Warning : (WVarShadow) This variable shadows a previously declared variable issue.