Haxe Roundup 662

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/upcoming] HaxeJam 2023: Winter Jam will start February 6th. ️
• One Day After Fraymakers Early Access Launch (updates on keys, performance, controllers, and content!) article. Plus 0.5.1 performance improvements!
• Haxe Neovim project progress update.
• [devlog] ☠️ Perilous Shores: WIP Area Labels article by Oleg Dolya.
• [devlog] Dune: Spice Wars - “Line In The Sand” Community Update.
• [devlog] Wartales Roadmap Update!
• [devlog] Minicology Public Demo 0.9.5 Base Building Fest!
• [devlog] New teaser for Dead Cells Return to Castlevania DLC and Keymailer open for content creators post.
• [devlog] Northgard - Cross of Vidar: Epilogue article.
• 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.

Videos & Music

• How to Install OpenFL video.
• Among Us Joins Fraymakers! Early Access Launch Trailer!
• Exporting Armory 3D games to HTML tutorial.
• Showcase of the new Armory3D, High-Quality Bloom via Armory3D forums.
• 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

• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• 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

• Play Bruno & Sebas: Arcade version (Pixel day demo) - A Run N Gun game with RPG elements on Newgrounds by BYRgames, made in Stencyl.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Gepatto is testing out OpenFL & Away3D samples on the RaspberryPi 4b, showing particle traits and globe samples.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Aurel is working on a Ceramic backend for HaxeUI, check out the preview GIF.

Git Repos

• haxe-concurrent 4.1.0 has been released.
• [openfl] Arabic ligature + Better RTL pull request.
• [vshaxe] Fix fully qualified completion on new foo.bar.X merged.
• [vshaxe] Fix LSP for documents with surrogates pairs pull request. ️
• haxeui-hxgodot git - HaxeUI backend for Godot using HxGodot.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

LD52 “Harvest”

In case you missed it

• Abundance, a 2.5D metroidvania by Aurel.
• Jerry and the Sunlight entry by Jérémy Faivre.
• Grow Golf entry by torcado.
• Crop Rotation entry by ZwodahS.
• Space Harvest 9000! entry by Vasco.
• Goblin Sylvester the Mighty Harvester entry by Yanrishatum (Pavel Alexandrov), Devilsmile and Shess.

Closed Source

• Nothing this week.

Some Library Releases

• haxe-doctest 3.1.10
• hx3compat 1.0.4
• flixel-screenshot-plugin 1.0.0
• grig.midi 0.0.11
• fabula 0.15.0
• hxCodec 2.6.1
• pony 1.9.5
• flixel 5.2.1
• haxe-concurrent 4.1.0
• 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 Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• 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

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

• Revive test for #8616 ~ temp var counter instability with cache server merged.
• [typer] Only infer getter/setter types when dealing with actual getter/setter merged.
• [server] Remove early macro context flush merged.