Haxe Roundup 658

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

• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon. ️
• Haxe.Social is a new unofficial Akkoma instance for Haxe developers and projects. ️
• Year end retrospective-- DQ2 Progress Report for November 2022 article by Lars Doucet.
• Chibi Ninja Devlog #3 by Andrej Preradovic.
• Northgard: Cross of Vidar release article.
• Castlevania is back! Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC coming Q1 2023!
• Minicology 0.8.8.5: Darkness re-loaded, sounds and game feel devlog.
• Macro to generate nested Lua tables from typedef thread.
• Ludovic Bas asked ChatGPT to write some Haxe code.
• Two short twitter threads about the recent improvements in HaxeFlixel 5:
  • Improved collision in action.
  • Improved path finding.
• Question regarding a job/bounty targeting longstanding HXCPP issue discussion.

Videos & Music

• Rogue of Vallas Level 6-4 - Excavation Playthrough.
• Let’s Play Bring It On! Episode 03 - Featuring Black Magix.
• Citadelic - Roguelite Strategy Game Trailer by Kirill Poletaev.
• How to make a custom cursor in Armory 3D.
• Building an online multiplayer browser game with Haxe and Colyseus by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Wartales: co-op gameplay with the devs VOD.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• Corrun is looking for an experienced Haxe programmer to make a deltarune engine.
• Fire Falcom are actively looking for Gaming Platform Programmers.
• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.

Bounties

• Five new Armory3D bounties have been listed.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Via the Haxe Discord server, ZwodahS has released prototype of Card City Mayor.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• The latest starship v.1.12.0 (a customisable shell prompt) added support for showing the current Haxe version as part your prompt.
• Reading Aseprite pixel art animations in Ceramic engine by Jérémy Faivre.
• ninja_muffin99 has moved the FNF GitHub repo to FunkinCrew GitHub org. And a little headsup for FNF GitHub / open source stuff.
• Nanjizal has fixed the PathElementShape in pixelimage library.
• Last weeks experiments by Tong.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Some info about Reflaxe - Reflection Compiler for Haxe. ️
• 47rooks has added light casters for their OpenGL with OpenFL and Lime project.
• go2hx showcase: passing go’s std: strings. ️

Git Repos

• [armory] armqna - Tensorflow based question+answer tool discussion.
• xmpp-action git - Use XMPP in GitHub actions.
• HardcoreLightly git - A Minecraft Spigot plugin written in Haxe that makes players lose max health each time they die.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Some prototype work for Patches Of Adventure by Rob Clemmons Jr.
• The hardest part of the whole production process for Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC….
• New quick videos from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower:
  • You can not only jump on arrows, but also use your hookshot on them!
  • Working on a slightly prettier level select.
  • Having a good tutorial and clear instructions is important for a game, wouldn’t you say?
  • Platform goes up, platform goes down.

From the Haxe Discord server

• New GIF from Hitter by Naoya.
• Sharpcdf is messing around in Ceramic and thinking about making a puzzle game.

Some Library Releases

• pirhana 1.1.11
• formatter 1.14.4
• minecraft-api 0.2.69-alpha
• dropecho.interop 0.4.7
• reflaxe 1.0.3
• IniFiction 0.1.0
• dropecho.storygen 0.9.3
• dropecho/dungen 1.5.0
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• 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.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• 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.

Core Changes

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

• Dynamic on abstract issue.
• Reification outside of macro expr fixed.
• User defines/metas: do not display Haxe help message merged.
• Information on Generated Variables and Optimisations for Improving Debugging discussion.
• [hxcpp] Make _hx_std_process_kill work everywhere pull request.